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The zombie Nazis of North Asia
Spectrum, Michael Ruffles, Published on 02/03/2014
» Two impressive and creepy railway carriages stand entombed inside an Aladdin’s cave of goodies donated by dictators and despots in a museum nestled in Mount Myohyang. Both date back to the 1950s and both are well appointed in ways that befit a communist strongman; each had a bed, desk and space to conduct affairs of state, one had a chandelier. The one on the left with a khaki and green interior colour scheme was a gift from Mao Zedong, the blacker one to the right from Joseph Stalin.
Send in the clones
Spectrum, Michael Ruffles, Published on 29/12/2013
» There may be no sweeter revenge for receiving a terrible school report than winning a Nobel Prize, even if it does come more than six decades later. But the most Sir John Gurdon, a gentleman to a fault at 80 and immaculately dressed shortly after landing in Bangkok from Hong Kong, allows himself is a polite if ironic chuckle.