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...advancement and future exploitation of genetic sequencing should be carried out on a purely not-for-profit basis, so the discovery can benefit the largest number of people. It's a chance to prove we can overcome a most basic and destructive human flaw: greed. JIMMY YEW Singapore...
Time and again, we find that plants and animals make strange molecules that chemists would never devise in their wildest dreams (and chemists do dream of chemicals in their wildest dreams). For example, researchers could not have invented the anticancer compound taxol, taken from the Pacific yew tree. It is too fiendishly complex a chemical structure, says natural-products chemist Gordon Cragg, of the U.S. National Cancer Institute...
...with his quick mind--his IQ "must be 200," Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers once said. Zhu has a Rolodex memory, endless energy and an overpowering impatience. He is not a man that one likes, but "a man that one respects," says Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Above all, Zhu is a man in a hurry, with a mission to make up for lost time, both for himself and for China...
...fully support Mahathir's recent plans to put the country's economy back in order. But in addition, Malaysians are receptive to a more open society, in particular to a greater degree of press freedom and judicial independence. EE YEW CHAI Kuala Lumpur...
After reading the comments of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew on China's Premier Zhu Rongji, Asian values and Confucianism, I gained considerable new insight into the Asian world [WORLD, March 16]. I found myself thirsting for more wisdom from this remarkable man, particularly for a more detailed critique of the roles of the U.S. and the IMF in ameliorating the Asian crisis. Singapore is indeed fortunate to have such a leader. ERIK C. LARSEN Winter Park...