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...nation invested heavily in quake research, quakeproof engineering and quake relief. Not only did they believe their seismologists could predict the next Big One, but their leaders also gave the impression they would be ready for it when it came. But when the ground shook under Kobe on Jan. 17, 1995, that faith suffered its own Richter shock, and Japanese confidence in their ability to outsmart nature lay in ruins ... By night people huddled in high schools or town halls, in stairwells or around bonfires. By day they drifted back to the wreckage of their lives. Kazumichi Kawabata...
...relentless that players either turn down the intensity dial occasionally or else burn out. Whenever it mattered, Federer rose: he did not lose to anyone in the Top 10 and won all 11 finals he contested. He has to be favored to defend his Australian Open title, climaxing Jan. 30; there's also loose but understandable talk of him accomplishing some quite extraordinary feats before he's done with tennis: a grand slam, perhaps (winning all four major titles in the same year), and eclipsing the record of 14 majors won by Pete Sampras, who said recently: "We have...
...intentionally relevant one is HBO's Dirty War (Jan. 24, 9 p.m. E.T.), about a dirty bomb (a device packed with radioactive material that renders an area uninhabitable with its fallout) set off in London. The film was co-written and directed by Daniel Percival, a one-man VSDM industry; he also created Smallpox, a chilling mockumentary that aired this month on FX. Dirty War opens on a sight familiar from the news, an attack-simulation drill. The test is a sham--the responders are badly underequipped, and the casualty numbers are fudged--but the Minister for London (Helen Schlesinger...
...docudrama Pompeii: The Last Day (Discovery, Jan. 30, 9 p.m. E.T.) did not set out to be a VSDM. That changed with the Indian Ocean tsunami, when entire habitations were, like the Roman city in 79 A.D., erased by a rumbling from beneath the earth's crust. A BBC co-production (as is Dirty War), Pompeii gives a scientific blow-by-blow of Vesuvius' eruption. More interestingly--and with more resonance today--it tries to tell the disaster's human story...
...that U.S. troops have. If millions of dollars can be spent on humvees, surely more money can be disbursed to rebuild hospitals and dispensaries. President George W. Bush's program of establishing democracy in Iraq is not making its best showing at the moment. A low turnout for the Jan. 30 election will not bring an end to this unjustified war. Sufghan Sarwar Khan Bristol, England...