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This month marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, when atom bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki drove Japan to accept defeat in history's bloodiest conflict. Japan has focused on peaceful economic development over the intervening six decades, and can take much of the credit for Asia's 20th century boom. But recent debate over issues such as Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council, or reforms to its pacifist constitution to allow a standing army, has made some of its neighbors uneasy...
...mountains. Although it was difficult for me to learn to feel comfortable being able to see only a dozen feet in front of me, I have come to enjoy the smooth curves of the road as it winds like a snake through the hills. Yet, the last time I drove through the mountains, I ended up at a very unusual location: the beach...
What makes DateLance.com unique in the age of ubiquitous cyber-aggrandizement, however, is that Archibald—who now has more than 1,600 applicants to choose from—had no hand in the site. In fact, Archibald didn’t know it existed until he drove by his own billboard, which is in Lindon, some 40 miles to the south of Salt Lake City...
...turn. In Nacogdoches, Texas, 17-year-old Heath Drewery was in bed when he was jolted by what sounded like an explosion outside his house. "I heard this big rumble and thought a train had derailed," he says. He and his brother piled into their truck and drove into town, where the street was littered with debris. "There were pieces all over the place. It looked like it was charcoal." In San Augustine, things got more grisly still, when body parts fell from...
...they marry: a great talker who listens well, a natural talent who works unnaturally hard, a regular guy who moonlights as a legal star. In his prime-time introduction of his nominee to take the place of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, President George W. Bush drove right past the fact that Roberts is a reliably conservative fellow who would not "legislate from the bench" and lingered instead on the career and character that would make him so valuable on the court, and so invulnerable to attack...