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...Asia-Pacific region faces change and political uncertainty, but it also offers enormous opportunity. During the past five years, America's trade with East Asia has outstripped its commerce with Europe. By the year 2000, more than half of the world's population will live on the western rim of the Pacific...
Author Hugh Nissenson's fifth book and second novel purports to be the private diary of one Thomas Keene, 42, a widower who has settled in Richland County, Ohio, on the rim of the then unsettled wilderness. His first entry, on July 1, 1811, is an inventory of his credits and debits, including the $304 he owes the federal land office for the purchase of 160 acres of farmland. If he knew he were writing a story, Keene might decide to begin it with something more exciting than a ledger sheet. But he has no idea, of course, what shape...
...well as thin, crackling raspberry and orange tarts. Sooner or later all try their hand at the subtle and restrained garnishes created by Robuchon. He tends to favor a pointillist shimmer of color, sometimes achieved with tiny droplets of tomato sauce dotted from a knife point to rim a sauce of grass-green pureed spinach or by flecks of herbs and vegetables added to a terrine of rabbit set in a pale, jewel-like aspic. Wielding a tiny round cutter that he found in Japan, Robuchon scoops pinpoints of ivory apple and jade avocado to be tossed with lobster...
...Spanish-style residences with courtyards and swimming & pools often sit next to 60-year-old wooden bungalows and duplexes that initially cost as little as $10,000. The flames that leaped out of the valley and slashed through the overgrown chaparral made few distinctions when they reached the canyon rim. Abraham Nasatir, 80, a professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University and an expert on California lore, watched the fire consume some 500,000 historical papers he had collected. He was working on a nearly finished history of the British in California, a manuscript that had occupied...
...wave of immigrants, says former California Governor Jerry Brown, is gradually changing the country's angle of vision. "The Pacific Rim is becoming the focal point for economic and political concerns," he says. "This immigration will eventually move Europe to a lower priority in the way we look at the world." It is a mistake, though, to think of immigrants as an undifferentiated clump, politically or otherwise. Not only do they differ by national origin and social class and ideology but also according to whether they plan to stay permanently or eventually return home. "What binds Americans to one another...