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Webster assigned a young scientist, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, to try to figure out how the virus transformed itself into such a "hot" pathogen. Kawaoka, now a professor of virology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, compared the genetic structure of viruses from the first and second waves and found only a single, extremely subtle change in the H gene. The two viruses differed by just one nucleotide--one of 1,700 nucleotides that made up the gene...
...another instance, the family of Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori won $653,000 in a civil suit filed against Baton Rouge, Louisiana, butcher Rodney Peairs, who shot their son when he mistakenly came to Peairs' door while searching for a Halloween party. Peairs was acquitted of manslaughter, but, says the Hattoris' lawyer Charles Moore, "sometimes jury verdicts are wrong. That doesn't mean you have to throw up your hands and walk away...
...official, who implicated Asahara. Hayashi, who was arrested for illegally confining an Aum member at one of the rural compounds, reportedly confessed he was among the 10 Aum operatives who had placed sarin on the trains. The order, he said, came specifically from Asahara. The third big catch was Yoshihiro Inoue, 25, who is suspected of organizing the attack. Police caught him in western Tokyo last week and discovered bombmaking explosives in his car, and maps and timetables for the city's subway system at his hideout...
TOKYO: For Masaichi and Mieko Hattori, the 15 minutes with President Clinton were necessary to ensure that their son had not died in vain. Most Japanese were outraged and bewildered in 1992 after a homeowner in Louisiana shot Yoshihiro, a 16-year-old exchange student; the man who did it was acquitted of manslaughter. The Hattoris pinned a Coalition to Stop Gun Violence sticker on Clinton. Public sentiment in Japan strongly supports the couple...
...Louisiana man was acquitted of manslaughter in the shooting death of a Japanese exchange student who came to his front door by mistake. Rodney Peairs said he mistook Yoshihiro Hattori for a burglar when the youth ran toward him. The verdict provoked an outcry in Japan...