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...Spectator mounted a campus-wide advertising campaign to woo potential sex columnists, netting 35 submissions, “way more than we expected,” King said...
Last Thursday, South Korean scientists Dr. Woo Suk Huang and Dr. Shin Young Moon became the first to extract a line of stem cells from a cloned human embryo, clearing the first hurdle towards therapeutic cloning—a method aimed at treating diseases rather than making babies...
...years back the British government launched an advertisement to woo more young people into teaching. It featured various celebrities—including the Prime Minister—naming their favorite teachers, and climaxed (rather nauseatingly) with the catchphrase, “Those who can, teach.” Had they asked me—I was, shockingly, snubbed—I would have chosen Jane Sillery, the Northern Irish firebrand who taught me history during my last two years before college...
When Hwang Woo Suk, one of South Korea's leading cloning experts, hit a frustrating patch in his research last year, a neurosurgeon colleague suggested he spend time with some patients who might benefit from stem-cell research. Hwang met a young couple with a tragic tale. The day after their wedding, the newlyweds went hiking. The husband slipped on a mountain trail and injured his spine. In the five years since the accident, the man hadn't been able to walk or go to the bathroom without his wife's help...
...also key to less fruitful efforts to woo away their colleague and department chair, Henry Louis “Skip” Gates...