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...monument to the tetrapods, the name given to the interlocking concrete blocks that form the towering breakwaters protecting the city's most vulnerable flanks. Behind the breakwaters I hear the crash of invisible waves, in front the laughter of children swimming in the intensely blue water of a narrow canal. I wonder, What will the Maldives be like a couple of centuries from now? Will its corals have adapted to warmer conditions, as some think possible, or will they be forced to seek refuge in artificially maintained reefs? And what of its people, now spread out across 200 islands? Will...
...woman of 61 who, like Yoshitaka Kawamoto, was not far from the hypocenter when the atom bomb exploded. Like Kawamoto, Numata devotes much of her time to speaking to schoolchildren about her experiences on Aug. 6. She spends her private hours in her orderly, sun-filled house on a canal, tending a small garden bright with hydrangeas, peonies, red camelias, sweet daphne and amaryllis; and taking care of several cats and a large, cheerful doll that sits near the porch and whose outfits she changes according to the seasons. Numata smiles easily when she talks. She enjoys watching the ballet...
...embracing and perfecting their own legacy. The result is as relaxed and upbeat as Sumner's current incarnation. "I'm just a happier person, and that contentment shows in the music," he explains, sipping tea in a Paris studio dressing room before taping a performance for French TV channel Canal Plus last week. But despite the unapologetic joy that propelled the album's first single, Krafty, into the U.K. Top 10, Sumner warns that New Order haven't completely abandoned their early edgy electronics and somber lyrics. "It gets boring writing about how happy you are," he acknowledges...
...diplomat who advised Presidents Johnson, Carter and Clinton; at his home in Washington. As an attorney, he acquired the rights to technology that built Xerox into one of the nation's largest companies. He went on to a life of diplomacy, helping negotiate the historic transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama and later representing Carter in the Middle East negotiations that followed the 1978 Camp David accords...
...record, Jeremy Irons is the melancholy, homoerotic Antonio, and the American Lynn Collins an efficient Portia, in what we may call the Al Pacino Merchant of Venice. Director Michael Radford, going heavily for brooding atmosphere, has shrouded the canal town in dank mists until the Adriatic could be the river Styx. He has also wrapped the play in historical perspective, noting the sorry plight of Jews in 1596 Venice. This makes Shylock's demand for a pound of Christian flesh his righteous revenge for all the spittle and slander he has absorbed. Pacino emphasizes Shylock's gnomish outsider status...