Word: metropolitane
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...with a crevice a couple of meters wide extending a few meters from the beach. It is partially open on top, and light streams into it. There used to be a discarded bathtub there among pieces of trash blown in by the wind. During the four months when Tokyo Metropolitan Police officers, with assistance from elements of the Self-Defense Force, combed the area, no one bothered to look beneath the discarded tub. Eventually, at about 9:00 a.m. on Feb. 9, police revisited the cave they had already searched in the fall. Poking around by the bathtub, they found...
...Tokyo Metropolitan Police would eventually assign more officers to this case than it had to the 1995 sarin gas attack in the city subway system that had killed 12 and injured 5,500. They finally got their suspect on Oct. 12 when a 48-year-old Japanese businessman named Joji Obara was detained in connection with Lucie's disappearance. On April 6, Obara, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence, was charged with her death: a rape that apparently turned into murder. Police officials, speaking off the record to the Japanese press, suggest he may have raped as many...
...Neighbors subsequently reported seeing Obara that evening pacing the small, 15-m-wide beach adjacent to his apartment building. The next day, records showed Obara was treated at a hospital for extensive bug bites as a result of being outside all night. Despite all this information, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police failed to thoroughly search the area around Obara's apartment until early February...
...there is another show in America dedicated in part to Vermeer--this time at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Curated by a team of scholars led by Walter Liedtke, the Met's curator of European paintings, "Vermeer and the Delft School" sets itself the task of filling in Vermeer's immediate cultural background. In the 17th century the Dutch city of Delft was an art center, though not a big one. Its population at mid-century was only about 25,000. It had flourishing trade (much of it luxury goods, like the popular blue-glazed pottery that...
Gene Pierce grew up in Tupelo but left to work as an air-bag engineer for Ford. He came home to manage True Temper, whose 473 employees produce steel shafts for golf clubs sold from Tokyo to Turin. Comparing Tupelo with the metropolitan areas, Pierce says, "The pay is just as good here, and there's less hassle...