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...readily apparent on the Golan. For the men on the ground who make up Japan's only overseas military operation, the curbs on their duties are surreal, a day-to-day life ripped out of the pages of Catch-22. Soldiers aren't allowed even to shovel snow from the street with troops from other countries because that would be an exercise of collective security. If the stable situation in their section of the Golan were to deteriorate into conflict, Furusho's men are allowed to shoot to kill only in self-defense. The Canadians have orders to use lethal...
Forget tekka maki. Never mind negitoro. California roll? That's so five minutes ago. Here's what I want in my sushi: baby eel, snow crab, mango, coconut and cucumber...
...sound of howling wind, a model emerges in a head-to-toe snow print wearing a delicate collar of cherry blossoms nodding on long, slender stems. Then, to the melancholy strains of a live string orchestra, others follow in puffed coats so intricately puckered and gathered that models look encased in origami cocoons. The collection, the fourth by Issey Miyake's heir apparent Naoki Takizawa, creates an effect so mesmerizing that, for a moment, even the most hard-nosed store buyers forget niggling practicalities like what happens if you sit while furled in those brilliantly colored coats...
...vision of a Japan untainted by foreign culture. Kawabata's aristocratic aesthetes, tea masters and geishas are the epitome of Flower Arranging Nation and some of his novels, to Western eyes, are more a series of beautiful tableaux than novels - too precious by half. His greatest works like Snow Country and House of Sleeping Beauties are haunting; more than any other Japanese author, Kawabata satisfies our appetite for strangeness and exoticism. Kawabata himself created a striking metaphor of cross-cultural fascination in the protagonist of Snow Country, who was devoted to the study of Western ballet although he'd never...
...find it hard to believe that scientists can accurately predict what kind of weather we will have in 100 years. Last month we in the New York metropolitan area heard alarming predictions of 2 ft. of snow in Manhattan, but we ended up getting just a few inches. If looking only a couple of days into the future can produce a weather-forecast goof like that, how can anyone accurately predict what the effects of global warming will be 100 years from now? PAUL MCGRAW Rockville Centre...