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Perhaps indicative of modern Japanese attitudes is a question posed by a member of the Japanese contingent to a Smithsonian Institution symposium on the ethics of whaling. The representative asked how a whale differed from a mosquito, not to argue that both should receive protection but that both are expendable. "The Japanese don't seem to accept the concept of sustainable development," contends conservationist McManus, "((the idea)) that there can be a middle ground between total exploitation or total protection...
Still, there are many heartening signs of change in Japan. Miwako Kurosaka, a longtime environmental activist, says with some awe that she has been invited to address a prestigious Keizaikai study group for senior executives that ordinarily devotes its sessions to business and politics. Diet member Kosugi points out that meetings of his environmental subcommittee, which used to draw five or six legislators to a small room, now draw 40 or more, forcing a move to larger quarters...
...budgets, prohibitive. Faux-tortoise cases to coddle a new pair of frames are available for $50 (less flamboyant cases are available gratis, with purchase), and Peoples does the same kind of careful detail work that Coasters and fast trackers like to lavish on their cars. One Optec Japan staff member is employed exclusively to hand color each nose pad to look like tortoiseshell. Mr. Peepers may not have been able to afford anything in the store, but he would have been tempted. As for Mr. Peoples, gone these 50 years, he turns out to have been not only an optician...
...novelist and journalist, wrote him shortly before he died of a heart attack three years ago at the age of 40 that "anxiety was his truest feeling." Apprehension also comes with the territory. Naipaul was born an outsider 56 years ago in the British colony of Trinidad. A member of neither the white ruling class nor the black majority, he was part of the island's large, self-contained Indian community. As a child, he lived a Hindu village life in the country. In Port- of-Spain during World War II, he experienced a polyglot street life that included...
Government leaders in democracies are accustomed to having their appointments challenged in the legislative branch, but the experience was a shock for Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. The country's new 542-member Supreme Soviet rejected six of Ryzhkov's 69 nominees to ministerial-level jobs. The - casualties included Culture Minister Vasili Zakharov and Vladimir Gribov, designated head of the central bank...