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READING THE FUTURE Sony hopes its 1/2-in.-thick Reader, with a high-contrast screen and enough memory to hold the text of 80 books, will change the way we read. Sony's online bookstore has a few thousand eBook titles available for download...
Murmurs of anticipation ran through the hall when Abernathy, Jackson and Young were sighted--only to hush when King's absence registered. For Abernathy, a keen reader of crowds, the palpable disappointment was worse than he feared. He went to a vestibule telephone instead of the podium and marshaled enticements for King--mentioning news cameras, the big spray of microphones, and Lawson's point that the movement seldom gathered so many people in the South. Most of all, Abernathy told King this was a core crowd of sanitation workers who had braved a night of hellfire to hear...
...Hwang describes those atrocities with a subtle power. He takes the reader to the edge of a gruesome scene, then steps back and focuses on the sort of mundane detail that sticks in one's mind more firmly than any blood-splattered image. Describing the immolation of suspected communist sympathizers?women and children included?in an air raid shelter, he focuses with almost casual detachment on the sound of slaughter: "Suddenly a muffled, moaning sound, kind of like the 'oooh' a crowd of people might make, rose up all around us like some sort of wind?and then...
...Hwang highlights the obvious truth that outside powers have inflicted great harm upon Korea, playing a major role in its painful division. But to a foreign reader his apparent conviction that the malign influence of Westerners should absolve Korean participants of their own guilt in the bloodshed is perplexing. This sentiment?it could be summed up as "the foreign devils made them do it"?may be comforting to Korean readers eager to overcome the burdens of their tortured history. But Hwang's determination to smooth over the ugliness of the past may doom his book to a far less enthusiastic...
...Gallant Venture It defies my understanding why the success of the Chinese space program [Oct. 17] should make other Asians critical of it, as was the reader who wrote a letter to TIME [Nov. 21]. If China wishes to push its space technology to its highest extreme, there is no necessity to pour cold water on that gallant effort. Indeed, as Asians, we ought to be proud of such an unprecedented accomplishment. Let's look forward to the day when Asia's space endeavor lands an Asian on the moon. Venze Chern Cameron Highlands, Malaysia...