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Keiichi Makino, a manga expert at Kyoto Seika University, praises the comics' "complex story lines, characters, sophisticated dialogue and drawings. The amount of information is astonishing." In the U.S., Japanese bookstores such as Kinokuniya in New York City carry a bilingual version of Division Chief Kosaku Shima. A book about the comics, with samples, is called Bringing Home the Sushi, available at Amazon.com...
Except for nuclear war or a collision with an asteroid, no force has more potential to damage our planet's web of life than global warming. It's a "serious" issue, the White House admits, but nonetheless George W. Bush has decided to abandon the 1997 Kyoto treaty to combat climate change--an agreement the U.S. signed but the new President believes is fatally flawed. His dismissal last week of almost nine years of international negotiations sparked protests around the world and a face-to-face disagreement with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Our special report examines the signs of global...
...Bush position on Kyoto offers yet another reason for Europeans to question whether -after eight years of Clinton talking of multilateralism without necessarily moving it forward -Bush's America is abandoning even the pretext. "In Europe, we're seeing an attitude shift from complacency to some alarm," says Robert Kagan of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The alarmist catalog would begin with National Missile Defense, move to the worsening relationship with Russia, and take in the harder line on North Korea and Iraq, and finally the tepid support for the E.U.'s ambitions in foreign and security policy...
...such moves are counterproductive. "American companies aren't that concerned with whether a few thousand people less buy their gas in Europe," he says. "A boycott will just let the Europeans off the hook." In fact, Europe and the rest of the world now seem determined to ratify a Kyoto agreement; the hope is that the Americans will join later. That will depend on the factor Bush considers paramount: economics. If the global market favors companies that make low-fuel automobiles, effective windmills and solar batteries, then American companies will press their government in a different direction. But how long...
...environment, above all. Bush is repeating the Clinton administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...