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...fight for it. Japan had democracy handed to it on a platter by the U.S. after World War II. It wasn't a gift in which the public had much interest. During the high-growth years, citizens contentedly relied on Elite bureaucracies that steered the nation with a magic hand, functioning in near total secrecy, with budgets and planning structures far removed from the political process. Over time, their programs began to diverge drastically from the real needs of society. Today, there are things worth fighting about: among them, the last rivers and wetlands still unconcreted, and a skyrocketing national...
Clearly, surfing has transcended fashion for many women, and the number of participants seems poised to continue to grow rapidly. The veteran women surfers aren't all that surprised. They understand the irresistible magic of being in the ocean and playing with this awesome force of nature. "You dance on water," explains Kennelly. "It is this impossible thing that is made possible...
...buying a PC for the first time. Alas, if you already have Windows and want to switch, it's a little harder. To save all your old files, you have to create a partition on your hard drive, which is just as difficult as it sounds Powerquest.com's Partition Magic will do it for an additional $59). Maybe when Lycoris hires its sixth employee, it can start making this part easier...
Making personal transport less damaging to the planet means looking beyond cars as well. "If you could wave a magic wand and make every car fuel efficient, it wouldn't solve all our problems," says Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research in Manchester, N.H. "It is still very energy intensive to move a 2,000- or 3,000-pound machine." His solution: the Segway, the recently unveiled high-end scooter that goes up to 13 m.p.h., is powered by an electric motor and runs on just a nickel's worth of electricity a day. The batteries today are standard nickel...
...young man--in flux. As the Asian economies come of age, Greenfeld takes the reader on a tour of the giddy highs and lurid lows of late 20th century Asian life. "There was a wicked sorcery in Asia," he writes, and in Standard Deviations he deconstructs that magic...