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...early August, Mattel's Fisher-Price division and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 967,000 toys, featuring characters like Big Bird and Elmo from Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer, because of excessive amounts of lead paint. The toys had been manufactured this spring and summer by Lee Der in Foshan...
...specifically Everglades National Park, has been on the U.N.'s endangered list since 1993. By then the levees and canals the Army Corps had dug, as well as breakneck South Florida development and agricultural waste products like phosphorous, were wreaking eco-havoc. An astonishing 90% of the Everglades' wading bird population, for example, had disappeared. Last February, the park's experts laid out benchmarks for Everglades improvement - "which when met," the report says, "would facilitate the removal" of the park from the U.N. list. The report made it clear that while progress was being made in areas like correcting...
...Wind-up Bird Chronicle, 1994 Critics regard this 600-page tome, penned over four years while Murakami was living in the U.S., as his best novel. It stars Murakami's signature jazz-listening loner, but is interwoven with the horrifying narrative of a soldier in World War II Manchuria - the author's first real foray into the dark realms of Japanese history...
...hour conversation, bushy eyebrows bobbing as he worries about "politicians who rewrite history," and the growing tendency in Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Japan to forget about wartime atrocities. Japanese history has always been in the background of his works - and his best novel, 1994's Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, dissected the groupthink that led Japan into a catastrophic war - but now he wants to act. "Before, I wanted to be an expatriate writer," he admits. "But I am a Japanese writer. This is my soil and these are my roots. You cannot get away from your country." Though...
...first person outside the family whom Nancy Reagan called when her husband died in 2004. Last month, Johnson's daughters Lynda and Luci reached out to him as their mother was dying. Two days before she passed away, he called and talked to them, and since Lady Bird was awake and alert, they put the phone to her ear. The former First Lady and the former White House pastor chatted some and then shared a prayer together...