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...looked very encouraging before Wednesday. After all, just a month ago, Obuchi had signed a written apology to South Korea for Japanese occupation of the peninsula. Why couldn't China obtain a similar statement for a long list of disturbing Japanese actions beginning with the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese...
What killed the dinosaurs? Scientists have been debating that one for a long time. They know that 65 million years ago, a large object, five or six miles across, blasted a 120-mile-wide crater at the tip of what today is Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. They also know that the impact, or more accurately, the worldwide, sunlight-blocking shroud of dust it kicked up, wiped out some 70% of the earth's plant and animal species--including the dinosaurs. But what, precisely, was the object that sealed their fate...
...same way, while Bainbridge's Titanic novel says more about hubris and class distinctions than any gazillion-dollar epic by James Cameron ever could. And Master Georgie reminds one, again, that war correspondents do not always get it right. As Bainbridge's group slogs across the Crimean peninsula, men and animals dropping from cholera and in battle all around them, the scene becomes surreal. At one point a soldier shows up with his ear blown off. "He kept shaking our hands in turn and saying how happy he was to meet us...the blood flying in all directions...
...really, really, really love Jesse Jackson, you will enjoy Diversity & Distinction, the biannual magazine celebrating the beautiful colors of the ethnic rainbow. Peninsula, meanwhile, is a magazine in defense of everything decent and godly. If you don't want to write for Peninsula--and you don't--you might try to earn a place on their annual Enemies List...
From Sleeping Bear, cross the peninsula and head north toward Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, on U.S. Route 31. Stop at the Music House, a 1906 barn that has antique, automated musical instruments in a reconstructed, turn-of-the-century museum. Continue north through the charming towns of Charlevoix and Petoskey and past the outstanding collection of 400 Victorian homes in Bay View. Another site not to miss: the scenic drive up State Road 119, between Harbor Springs and Cross Village...