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...civilians were at the controls, the submarine crew appeared to make no effort to take survivors aboard, the search for the missing was to be concluded?the accident moved beyond tragedy. Says an Uwajima sailor, an old timer who sailed aboard an earlier Ehime Maru training vessel in the 1960s: "It is outrageous. It is totally beyond belief...
...consequence, pop music is no longer mostly a way that one generation defines itself against its elders. The baby boomers' own parents grew up with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Nat "King" Cole. Rock was such an unmistakable break with that creamy tradition that teenagers of the 1960s and '70s understood it right away as music to fight Mom and Dad to, especially since their parents usually hated the stuff. Now kids have to accept that most of their own music is not so different from what their parents had, parents who grew up on Lou Reed, to say nothing...
...Parkinson's is caused by a breakdown of the brain's production of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which relays the electrical impulses involved in muscular movement. The last great breakthrough in treatment was in the late 1960s, when the "miracle" drug levadopa, or L-dopa-the chemical precursor of dopamine-was discovered to "unfreeze" patients who for decades had been practically rigid, unable even to produce facial expressions. Though it remains the standard treatment for Parkinson's, there is a serious downside to L-dopa. After a couple of years, during which patients seem to be cured, they start developing...
...fact, the country once had a vibrant film industry, with studios churning out 50-plus films a year for local audiences. During the 1960s reign of cinema-loving Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Phnom Penh had more than 30 theaters, mostly showing local movies. Sihanouk himself, now the country's King, was an enthusiastic producer, director, scriptwriter, star and music composer. One of the era's classics was 1960's Puos Keng Kang (The Snake King) by director Tea Lim Kun, which retold a Cambodian legend of a peasant woman seduced by the king of the snakes...
Arriving in Tripoli feels like stepping into an Arab capital of the nationalist 1960s. Most of the buildings are that old, and slogans of Arab unity and portraits of the leader stare down from every wall, every square, every corner. Still, at least my cell phone worked. And while it's hard to escape from Colonel Ghaddafi's image or his words - his every statement is read word-for-word on the evening news - every building appears to sport a satellite dish, and the city is dotted with Internet café s where Libyans try to keep up with...