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...bomb test in the Marshall Islands. The crew received dangerous doses of radiation, and 500 tons of fish had to be recalled from ports nationwide after a radiation scare swept the country. The incident, coming less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, traumatized Japan. Working with director Ishiro Honda, Tsuburaya turned his octopus into a mutant dinosaur, awakened by a nuclear explosion and not happy about it. The project was quickly green-lighted by the prestigious Toho studio...
...roaring streets of Hanoi a terrifying place for the uninitiated. But for Vietnamese teenagers like Trinh Thanh Van, the motorized maelstrom is a party on wheels. It's 8 p.m. on a weeknight, and 19-year-old Van is out with two girlfriends on the back of her red Honda Wave, darting through ever-shifting streams of motorbikes as they look for new friends. It's a typical evening of luon lo (literally "wandering"), the nightly ritual where young Vietnamese cruise, flirt and flaunt their finest fashions...
...motorbike is the symbol of Vietnam's economic transformation over the past 20 years thanks to reforms allowing private enterprise. Often as not, a newly moneyed family's first major purchase was a shiny Honda Dream. Fifteen years ago, the country had only 500,000 motorbikes; today, there are 22 million. But Vietnam's love affair with the motorbike has come with a price: besides the death toll, the non-profit Asia Injury Prevention Foundation reports, a further 23,000 riders each year suffer debilitating brain damage from injuries that could have been prevented by helmets...
...respondents in the economics department, eight said they owned luxury cars—one of the highest percentages. And of the 13 East Asian studies faculty who responded to the survey, eight drove Asian-made cars. Overall, Toyota was the most popular make, followed by Subaru, Honda, Saab, and Volvo...
...second stint in Mass. Hall last year on an interim basis. He replaced economist Lawrence H. Summers, whose controversial leadership style was occasionally mentioned in the same breath as his choice of wheels—a black chauffeured Lincoln Town Car. His successor, Drew G. Faust, owns a Honda Accord, though she says she prefers to walk to work...