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...Hayakawa's renown declined in the early '20s, and Hollywood ignored the Japanese for two decades. The war brought them back, more virulent than ever. The ad line for the 1943 film China read: "Alan Ladd and twenty girls - trapped by the rapacious Japs!" In the POW drama The Purple Heart, American airmen are tortured and executed for not ratting their pals. War movies reveled in a grim picture of the superhuman, subhuman foe - propaganda at its most lurid. As Bruce Jackson, who had been a World War II marine, wrote ironically in 1995: "Japs, as we learned from...
...neuronal connections, parents may be able to stimulate, say, the visual or musical ones by exposing kids to picture books or CDs, but it is doubtful that these fortify the brain in any meaningful way. "It's a myth that we can accelerate a child's developmental milestones," says Alan Woolf, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. "Children are kind of preprogrammed to reach those points." Bruer puts it more bluntly: "The idea that you can provide more synapses by stimulating the child more has no basis in science...
...ALAN GREENSPAN GETS IT In a shocker, the Federal Reserve chief cut short-term interest rates by a half-point last Wednesday, in effect acknowledging what investors have long sensed: the economy is more vulnerable than many think. The cut, which came between Fed meetings, signals that Greenspan will be aggressive in engineering a recovery. That's why long-term interest rates have been rising. The bond market is anticipating heightened credit demand in the coming expansion...
Bush and his "old economy" corporate elite have only one thing to say to the world about global warming: "Let them eat CO2." ALAN MACDONALD Sanford, Maine...
...After all, Wim Duisenberg, the euro-zone's Alan Greenspan, had just declined to cut interest rates last week, citing not only the apparent "downward stickiness" of price inflation amid Europe's economic slowdown but also a belief that the region's own storm clouds were dissipating, and at the talks nobody seemed inclined to savage him for it. Officials also urged the new guy, freshly appointed Japanese finance minister Masajuro Shiokawa, to go ahead with sure-to-be-painful economic reforms back home - and never mind the short-term risks to the rest of the economic world...