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...Tanaka is not especially handsome: he's short of stature, doughy-faced and displays a conspicuously well-fed belly. While a college student, he won a prestigious literary prize for a novel about Japan's alienated youth, and then turned himself into a peculiarly Japanese breed of writer-pundit-celebrity famous for simply saying outrageous things. This career puts him in a newly popular club of politicians with a single platform: to rock Japan's long-coddled boat. Koizumi and his feisty Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka (no relation to the Nagano Governor), are the most visible examples from within...
...American politics is about favors, not fatwas. And it's simple human nature to know that if you try to repress independence you only breed revolution. As the poet said, to increase your hold, relax your grip...
Traditional chemotherapy compounds are like blunderbusses that kill both malignant and healthy cells indiscriminately--by bombarding tumors with as much cell-destroying chemical as the patient can handle. Angiogenesis inhibitors, by contrast, are smart missiles. Like Gleevec, they belong to a new breed of cancer-fighting agents that grow out of a deep understanding--at the molecular level--of how cancers grow, and are designed to block a particular step along...
...alone. Around the cable dial, a bevy of B-, C- and sometimes A-list names are opening their immaculately crafted doors to a burgeoning group of celebrity home-tour shows, a new breed of house porn for weary nesters with neither time nor inclination even to pretend to want to Do It Themselves. On E!'s daytime-Emmy-nominated Celebrity Homes (daily, 7 p.m. E.T.), host Suzanne Sena guides us from Hugh Hefner's grotto at the Playboy Mansion to Ed McMahon's baby pictures in his kitchen to professional former star Danny Bonaduce's guitar collection...
Joblessness was at its lowest level in 30 years. Prices were in check. Productivity had surged to levels not seen since the 1960s. Early last year the economy was on a luxury cruise ordering umbrella drinks. Conditions seemed so perfect that a new, more cocky breed of economist was arguing that the New Economy had changed history. Recession? A relic. Despite falling stock prices, this optimism continued into autumn, with one prestigious group of business economists predicting "solid growth ahead with no end to the expansion...