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Most of the research sparked by this startling epiphany focused on Japanese economic strategies, and why they were so much better than ours. In his study of Japan, Harvard sociologist Ezra Vogel pointed out the many aspects of Japanese life and society that inevitably led to economic hyper-growth. His book, which quickly became a best-seller in Japan, was simply titled Japan As Number...
Fallows tries to make a case for the inclusion of his history when he argues that he and his family also are products of the American spirit of individualism and determination. He, too, went West and found a new life, only a century after the first squatters did. The connection may be there, but it requires a creative imagination to find...
When Amy Wilentz first visited Haiti in 1986, she expected to find a land terrorized by President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier and his dreaded Tontons Macoutes. As it happened, she landed at Port-au-Prince Airport three days before Duvalier was hustled off to exile in France. Instead of a country bowed under tyranny, Wilentz found one struggling with the uncertainties of revolution...
...first thought about stopping in 1974, when his father died, and then his manager, Sol Hurok. "I adored both of them," he says. "It was really quite a blow." And the virtuoso circuit was exhausting. "The life of a musician is the most solitary life. Sometimes I did find it very difficult." Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself...
...Giant spots, bright flares and huge eruptions are blemishing the face of the sun, delighting scientists and sparking spectacular auroral displays in the night skies. Astronomers are uncovering the secrets of the mysterious star that provides the earth with energy and sustains life itself. See SCIENCE...