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...TIME, he is proud of the way he captured beetles, looking under rocks to find them sleeping. "Nobody else thought to do that," he says. The son of a Nissan salesman and a housewife, Tajiri was raised in a Tokyo suburb in the late '60s, before the city crept outward. "As a child, I wanted to be an entomologist. Insects fascinated me. Every new insect was a wonderful mystery. And as I searched for more, I would find more. If I put my hand in a river, I would get a crayfish. Put a stick underwater and make a hole...
...lack of outward exuberance didn't mean that Gore was lazy--or that he couldn't have a good time...
Nader also expressed his view that HLS was restrictive of outward and forward looking thought...
...same time, the negative predictions of The Future haven't really come true, either. We're not on pace to have a world run completely by thinking computers. There are no outward indications of an impending apocalypse that many have predicted. Nor are there any serious signs of a second coming...
...history of ideas atop the history of events. There are a couple of implicit morals. The first is that cultures that turned inward, notably China (the breakout star of the show, with an apparent big role in the sequel), have not fared so well as those that were outward looking, even imperialist. The second is that the era's driving force, for good and for ill, is human arrogance. This millennium is a graveyard of eternal empires, authoritative explanations and overreaching ambitions that--like Isaacs'--every so often manage to show us something new under...