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Twenty kilometers outside the city of Nagoya in central Japan, on ground that was the Aichi Youth Park, a glittering futurescape has risen at the site of the 2005 World Exposition. Visitors at the expo's Mitsui-Toshiba pavilion are taken on a multimedia journey through outer space that speculates on the feasibility of travel to distant reaches of the universe. At the Japan pavilion, saltwater red snapper and freshwater carp live side by side in the same pool-a marvel accomplished by infusing the tank with "oxygenated nanobubbles." Throughout the 173-hectare grounds, more than 25 robots...
...given that California is 42nd in the nation in per-pupil education spending. But the Governor wasn't budging, and our conversation drifted into his standard riffs, some of them quite entertaining, about the "dinosaurs" in Sacramento who introduce bills about "plastic surgery for dogs and where you can park ice cream trucks and condom distribution in prisons" but who refuse to negotiate on his proposed reforms. Schwarzenegger is right to be scornful, but there is an obvious deal to be made here-real reform in exchange for new revenues-and it will take a politician who is more than...
Misti Cordova, 20, decided to go to First View after seeing a flyer in a Babies "R" Us. The video-store clerk soon found herself sitting in a tidy office park and cooing as she watched her unborn baby curl his upper lip: "Looks like he's doing an Elvis pose...
Online, he also created two animated shorts. One shows a young man strangled by a demented clown. The other, "Target Practice," cuts quickly from a man decapitated by a gun blast, to a standing figure and a man on a park bench who are both shot through the chest, to a police car flipping over after a grenade is lobbed into it, to a Klansman and his pointy hood scalped by another shot, and finally to the marksman stuffing the muzzle of a pistol into his mouth, squeezing the trigger and turning the screen crimson. The credits roll, and Weise...
DIED. KENZO TANGE, 91, Japan's most influential postwar architect, who led the rebuilding of Hiroshima with his peace-park design in 1949; in Tokyo. A winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he helped re-elevate his country to the world stage with his twin comma-shaped sports arenas for Tokyo's 1964 Olympics...