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...Club America. A two-story emporium called American Depot stands in the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel emblazoned with a Coca-Cola logo. Even at traditional matsuri, or summer festivals, children wave cotton candy, shirtless skateboarders do stunts on open walkways and women in shorts and bikini tops lick jewel-colored snow cones...
...broader implications. Explains Asphaug: "It's now known that giant collisions are a common aspect of planet formation, and these big impacts might go a long way toward explaining the puzzling diversity observed among planets." That diversity was emphasized last week when astronomers using the University of California's Lick telescope reported the discovery of two planets in orbit around a distant star. Unlike all previously discovered extra-solar planets, which have highly elliptical orbits, these two were moving in nearly circular paths. Alas, even the best telescopes are not sensitive enough to detect any extra-solar moons...
...Back at the American village a month after the incident, a matsuri (festival) is in full swing. Children wave cotton candy and scoop at goldfish with paper nets. Shirtless skateboarders do stunts on an open walkway. Women in shorts and bikini tops lick at jewel-colored snow cones. In the shadow of a giant Ferris wheel with a Coca-Cola logo and a two-story emporium called the American Depot march a cavalry of drum-banging young Japanese men. They're sweating through their traditional Okinawan outfits of purple bandannas and swinging orange coats...
...Russia in 1999, but despite receiving refugee status from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, he was returned to North Korea with assurances that nothing would happen to him. Nothing, it turns out, but excruciating torture. Park says he was held captive, beaten with iron chains and forced to lick the toilet hole in his cell. In April, with help from a Japan-based human-rights group, Park escaped to Southeast Asia, where he is hiding in a secret location. But he could soon be testifying before U.S. lawmakers eager for evidence of North Korean human-rights abuses. With Beijing...
...general apathy settled over campus in the early ’70s, alumni say, as the nation and the student protest movement turned inward to lick its wounds and both focused on the growing scandal surrounding Watergate and President Nixon...