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...money too: more than $12 million at last count, and it was still coming in last week. Many of the checks, moreover, came from people who attached notes making clear that in part they had been moved to give by the sight of the former rivals joining force. Mark Ward, a USAID official who worked closely with Bush and Clinton this year, said the unprecedented partnership changed the way Americans think about charitable aid. "They were able to get the attention of people in the U.S. who didn't give money to problems overseas before. Even my mother said...
...Increase in U.S. sales of Frank's sauerkraut since South Korean researchers reported this year that pickled cabbage--which is also used in kimchi--helps ward off bird...
...back and forth between the two. The precise physical and mental spaces in which the play takes place are made more unclear by a staging that is self-consciously stylized. The actors overemphasize emotions and often dramatically shift moods with little or no cause. The middle sister Masha (Molly Ward) especially exaggerates her small joys and sorrows. Such stylized acting, along with the dramatic lighting that illuminates much of the play, creates a sense of fantastic strangeness that contrasts with the traditional perception of Chekhov as a realist. Although the choice to stylize the text in this way is interesting...
After sequestering himself in a hospital psychiatric ward earlier this week, embattled South Korean cloning pioneer Woo Suk Hwang finally held a press conference on Friday. Before a packed room at Seoul National University, Hwang defiantly denied multiple allegations that he had fabricated the results of his history-making stem cell study published earlier this year in the journal, Science. During his lengthy statement, he blamed his compromised results on the possibility that his stem cell lines were switched at some point. He didn't elaborate on how or why the switch occurred...
...seems the intrigue and the accusations will only continue to deepen. Hopefully, once Hwang is back in the lab, the questions swirling around in the press about his work will be answered. Unfortunately, that may take a while. Hwang is back in the hospital, this time in the psychiatric ward...