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This strict ethos of honesty comes straight from the country's remarkable founding leader, Lee Kuan Yew, now 69, who "believed anything venal had to be destroyed," says Bilveer Singh, a leading political scientist. "Lee basically weeded out corruption by giving it no excuse or legitimacy...
...Singapore be cloned? Not without a Lee Kuan Yew, say many citizens. Moreover, their city-state possesses special advantages: small size that makes control easy and infrastructure cheap, no job-seeking rural poor to overwhelm the city with slums, an ambitious immigrant population, a Confucian ethic stressing education and respect for authority, location on a major trade route in the heart of a dynamic region. The country's perpetual siege mentality -- it feels threatened by bigger neighbors and fears its own ethnic mix is volatile -- also encourages economic and political sacrifice...
MORE THAN 20,000 AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DIAGnosed each year with ovarian cancer, many with the disease in an advanced stage, and chemotherapy seldom helps prolong their life. There is one effective treatment: taxol, a substance found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Taxol doesn't cure the cancer but does slow its progress for months in up to 30% of patients. Now it has received the blessing of both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canadian authorities as an approved treatment for ovarian cancer. It is also being investigated for possible effectiveness in combatting breast...
...which had not yet been notched for a bowstring, is made of yew, which Egg explains is "the best wood in Central Europe for bowmaking and the wood the famous English longbows -- like Robin Hood's -- were made of." Yew is relatively rare in the Alps, but the Iceman had searched out "the best material...
...some point, Egg says, the Iceman could have left his group to search for yew to replace a broken bow or to hunt for food. His route may have taken him over the Alpine crest and down to the tree line on the other side. There he cut himself a new bow, fetched more arrow wood, and prepared to rejoin his friends...