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...lauded on the mainland as a "nationalist hero." After Manchu "barbarians" breached the Great Wall to establish the Qing dynasty in the 17th century, Zheng led his coastal forces in resistance before fleeing in 1661 to Taiwan, then a scarcely populated outpost supporting some Dutch traders and a small garrison, which he defeated. Shortly after, Zheng ordered his officers to execute his own son over a love affair with a nurse; they refused, so the hero killed himself. For 22 years Zheng's followers ruled their Taiwan redoubt independently, fighting the Qing navy until finally surrendering. Sound familiar? History began...
...initial rise, the Roman yoke was relatively light, consisting mostly of tribute. But the Jews had been independent for a century before the imperial conquest, and many hoped to return to that state. In recognition of this, above the Temple's northwestern corner stood the city's great Roman garrison, the Antonia, named after Herod's patron Mark Antony and housing between 2,000 and 3,000 soldiers...
...Garrison Keillor's account of his father's final illness [ESSAY, March 12] just confirms what I have told so many friends concerning the death of my own mother. We who stay behind miss the bad times with the deceased parent just as much as the good times. What wouldn't we give to fight with this person once again? I, for one, would welcome another good and serious argument with my mother because even if we had our disagreements, they were an occasion for us to exchange feelings. The downside is that you come to this realization only after...
...this so-called germline gene engineering is routinely done in lower creatures, moving it up to primates brings the technique much closer to being done in humans--a step so troubling that nobody is ready to take it. Says Tom Murray, president of the Hastings Center for Bioethics in Garrison, N.Y.: "You could not morally justify attempting anything like this in humans for a very long time...
...generation of drugs. It is becoming clear that a cell called CD4, or helper T cell, is a key player in both healthy and autoimmune responses. "T-cell activation--like the branches of government--is controlled by a series of checks and balances," explains Dr. C. Garrison Fathman, a clinical immunologist at Stanford University...