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...Tokyo's Meguro, strangers bowed and smiled to one another and shared special editions of newspapers published to commemorate the occasion. BABY GIRL! screamed headlines. Queues snaked around shops selling royal-birth specials. Red lanterns swayed and banners extolling congratulations hung from homes and buildings. Yasuhiko Teraza, 67, and Teruhiko Itoh, 69, both hightailed it here from across town when they heard about the birth on the TV news. "I think it's great that it's a girl," says Teraza, pulling at his gray felt baseball cap. "They've got female royalty in England. Why can't we?" Itoh...
Still, Dolly would be just a laboratory curiosity if no one could repeat Wilmut's breakthrough. And that's where Teruhiko Wakayama comes in. He's a 31-year-old Japanese postdoctoral student who was studying cloning as a hobby at the University of Hawaii, where his lab director, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, was famous for telling students "not to be afraid of asking crazy questions. The crazier the better...
Yamazaki's management is enthusiastic about its new factory, which will operate around the clock, seven days a week, all year long. Says President Teruhiko Yamazaki: "The accuracy is better than humans can do, and the machines never have a blue Monday." To keep the equipment as precisely tuned as possible, workers help re-sharpen each machining center's drum of accessory tools every six or seven days. Such tasks, and programming the factory's computers, are all that the plant now requires of employees. There are normally ten to twelve workers in the plant during...
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