Word: yew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only appears determined to carry out its caning sentence on American teenager Michael Fay, but is planning the same punishment for another youth. A second American, who was arrested for vandalism along with Fay, is still on trial. Singapore's Senior Minister and predominant political personality, Lee Kuan Yew, 70, recently addressed this and other issues of U.S. policy with managing editor James R. Gaines, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger, Southeast Asia bureau chief William Dowell and senior correspondent Sandra Burton. Excerpts...
Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew calls for moral accountability...
...sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic virtues...
More than two decades ago, in 1971, a hubbub of scientific inquiry surrounded a rare strain of yew tree in the Pacific Northwest...
...example, Iwo Ojima, professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, is working on an analog to taxotere, a compound similar to taxol, known as Baccatin III. Taxotere, another drug with taxol's properties extracted from the leaves of the European and Indian yew trees, is more widely available than taxol and can be produced in greater quantities...