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...stripes out of opportunism. Clark says at the time of that speech he had quiet doubts about Bush's team, but wanted it to succeed. "I still could have hope in early 2001 that this administration would learn its lessons," he said at a recent Democratic candidate debate in Phoenix, Arizona...
...revered in Japan and throughout Asia but only recently has his work been appearing in quantity in the United States. His most famous creation, "Astro Boy," a series about a powerful robot who looks like a boy, has been reprinted by Dark Horse (see the TIME.comix review.) "The Phoenix Saga," a multi-volume series considered his life's work has properly begun to appear here courtesy of Viz. Now Vertical Inc., a two-year-old publisher of translated Japanese literature has begun the first-ever English translation of "Buddha." Originally appearing in serialized form during the 1970s, "Buddha," an imaginative...
Patrick is a fourth-grader in inner-city Phoenix, Arizona. He sits across the table from his grandmotherly principal and gleefully stuffs a folded slice of pepperoni pizza into his mouth. Patrick’s school has a hard time getting kids to show up to class, so these monthly pizza parties are raffled off to students with perfect attendance...
...turning its efforts to consumer applications like wireless transactions, helping American Express launch ExpressPay, an alternative to cash for purchases where speed and convenience are important, such as at fast-food restaurants, gas stations and dry cleaners. In July Amex set up a real-world RFID test in Phoenix, Ariz., allowing card users and employees to charge at 200 merchants with an RFID-ready fob attached to a key chain. Amex vice president David Bonalle says RFID pilots have cut transaction time 30% to 50% and average sales have gone...
...country's most famous intergalactic traveler lives in the last house on his lane at the edge of a Siberian forest. Meng Zhaoguo's odyssey began at the Red Flag logging camp in the Manchurian province of Heilongjiang, when he saw a metallic glint thrown off nearby Mount Phoenix. Thinking a helicopter had crashed, he set out to scavenge for scrap. The 36-year-old lumberjack stood gazing at the wreck from across a valley when "Foom! Something hit me square in the forehead and knocked...