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...Kobe Bryant had 24 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, his fifth double-double in as many games. But he shot just 8-for-21 and was the only Los Angeles player in double figures...
Asia may be mired in an economic slump, but it's still soaring technologically. Just look at Japan's Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, above, which opens this week and will enter the record books as the world's longest suspension bridge, connecting Awaji island to the city of Kobe. In the works for a decade, the $7.7 billion project boasts a 6,532-ft. (1.2-mile) center span--measured as the distance between the two towers--dwarfing the 1,595-ft. Brooklyn Bridge. Each of the towers, taller than a 90-story building, is equipped with 20 vibration-control devices...
...KOBE BRYANT The teenage Los Angeles Lakers phenom showcases his skills at the NBA All Star Game...
...Kevin Garnett, 20. Who needs college? Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves straight out of high school--Farragut Academy in Chicago--the 6-ft. 11-in. power forward averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds in his 43 postapprenticeship-on-the-bench starts. He also made it a little easier for Kobe Bryant and Jermaine O'Neal to make the jump from high school to the N.B.A. this year. Somewhere along the line, Garnett acquired a taste for literature. His favorite book, he says, is The Great Gatsby. As we said, who needs college...
Today the bureaucracies that used to deliver progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast...