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...High Line is a 1.5-mile elevated railway track that served for decades as a way to bring freight into lower Manhattan. By 1980 the trains had stopped running and the tracks were sliding into decades of spectacular decay that was also a kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern...
...Over the weekend, the trade association's members voted to trigger a consumer protection program designed in response to the 1998 freeze, after which growers inadvertently sold damaged fruit. An orange often takes days to show decay on the outside, even though it will be bitter and dry on the inside. California growers are now holding harvested fruit in packing houses for four to five days and testing it to avoid another PR snafu. And while growers will make more money on the few oranges they are able to sell, they are also aware that they have an incentive...
...Mishima. Collected in the 1963 book Ordeal by Roses, Hosoe's intimate portraits of Mishima - with their air of sadomasochism and homoeroticism - have become iconic, and sprang[an error occurred while processing this directive] from an artistic interest the two men shared in the grand themes of beauty and decay, love and hatred, life and death. But while Mishima became obsessed with the latter (famously committing seppuku in 1970), Hosoe was able to tame his darker promptings and channel his creativity toward life-affirming ends. He found satisfaction in teaching - becoming a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics...
ELLIS ISLAND STEPHEN WILKES Sixteen years ago, the north side of Ellis Island, the famed New York entry point for generations of immigrants, was magnificently renovated. But the hospital compound on the south side, where many arrivals were held in quarantine, was left to decay. For five years, Wilkes roamed the disintegrating buildings, with their cracked plaster and peeling paint, to make pictures of their gorgeous decrepitude. (Congress has since allocated money to preserve them.) Decline has never looked more haunting...
...appears abroad, at home he seems disengaged and clueless about the real concerns of voters. Despite his insistence that Japan has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, Abe seems unwilling or unable to rein in cabinet ministers who keep raising the unpopular issue. While Japanese are panicking over the decay of the educational system, Abe's answer is to push through a bill calling for a more patriotic curriculum. "The public wants education reform, but not anything like Abe is promoting," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of Japanese history at Temple University's Tokyo campus. "This is gesture politics, rather...