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Turning Japanese When it comes to gadgets and gizmos, Japan has typically been about four or five years in front of the U.S. consumer curve. The Walkman is just one of many gadgets that was available in the Japanese market well before it made the trip across the Pacific. Now...
Take John F. Kennedy High School, which at first blush is a picture of integration, with 21% white students, 22% black, 35% Asian and 16% Latino (the remainder are primarily Pacific Islanders, Filipinos and American Indians). J.F.K. routinely ships top graduates to Ivy League schools. But while the typical Asian...
Omen If the Arctic ice pack continues to melt at the current rapid rate, a northwest passage allowing ship traffic between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans could open up within 10 years, scientists say
Send Me Bruckheimer and Bay! Time to rewrite those history books; earlier this week divers confirmed the discovery of a downed Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor. The sunken sub appears to corroborate a long-held theory that the U.S., not the Japanese, fired the first shot in the...
Bengal tigers in lifeboats and Indian boys who worship Allah, Jesus and Hindu gods could easily become precious, but Martel saves his novel from saccharine whimsy by grounding it in hard reality. He doesn't stint on the bloody details of a tiger's diet, or the immense physical suffering...