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...more of a die-hard fan of die-cast robots than Eric Nakamura, the Los Angeles publisher of Giant Robot magazine. Since he started collecting the solid-metal toys when he was a child back in the 1970s, Nakamura has been hooked by the Japanese gadgets that inspired such latter-day playthings as the Transformers and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. "They are more than just toys, you know," says the 31-year-old, a tad defensively. "They are little pieces of art, little sculptures that inspire me every day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techno Fetishes | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...doing little to help him keep the hard-liners at bay. Indeed, the Bush administration's consideration of Taiwan's request to buy two sophisticated anti-missile destroyers has put him in a perilous position. Taiwan is a kind of Jerusalem (in the political rather than religious sense) to latter-day Chinese nationalism, and anything perceived as putting the "rebel island" finally beyond China's reach is quite simply intolerable to Beijing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jiang Zemin | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...feature of the final disc, a somewhat grimmer prospect that includes late-'60s meanderings, some truly naff Davy Jones treacle, and more of Mickey Dolenz' inane flights of fancy than any sentient being should be forced to endure - along with some ill-advised harder rock material from their various latter-day incarnations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Hey, They Were the Monkees | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

LAURA BUSH Defends own abortion beliefs; says she won't be just "social butterfly." A latter-day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 29, 2001 | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...very involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and served as a bishop, the lay spiritual leader of a congregation, in Cambridge...

Author: By Andrew J. Miller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clark Gave Harvard a Second Chance | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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