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Many critics search for Murakami's essential Japaneseness in the influences expressed through the art itself?influences that include anim?, otaku figurines and mushroom clouds, to name just a few. Yet few seem to have noticed the manner in which Murakami is perhaps most Japanese: taking someone else's concept...
The market for telescopes and peripherals has exploded too, and with affordable star-tracking software, digital cameras and access to global-positioning systems (GPS), self-taught stargazers can discover comets and supernovas on their own, thus democratizing this once elite science. Amateurs helped track the trajectory of the doomed shuttle...
Now, Urban Iraqis, also, are finally getting an opportunity to return to, or discover, normal life. Cautiously at first, and then in a deluge of bustling crowds - a human "izdiham" - Iraqis have returned to the streets and opened their shops and restaurants. There is certainly no shortage of food in...
Talented Kid's judges, understandably, wear kid gloves; few contestants score less than a 9.7 out of 10. (American Juniors, Fox's summer Idol follow-up with 6-to-13-year-old singers, will not even have judges, just an audience vote.) But what the Idolettes sometimes don't understand...
Magadanskaya, the vodka served by Stalin to Truman and Churchill at Potsdam, is smooth and bracing. A sip makes Robert Plotkin of BarMedia, a well-known consultant, say, "Oh, my goodness." But it tastes like ... vodka. Its importer, Sylvia Scherer, of West Import & Export in Kenai, Alaska, is marooned near...