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...Apocalypse) and a full-length study (Peter Cowie's new The Apocalypse Now Book), the quality of the resulting film could be irrelevant. But despite Coppola's protestation, Apocalypse Now is a movie--the most ambitious, artful attempt to capture on film the sundering trauma of American soldiers in Southeast Asia. Like any movie, it can be assembled into any shape, any length, that its powerful auteur deems suitable. So last year Coppola went back into the jungle of his Vietnam vision to reimagine one of the worst and proudest experiences of his career...
...opium poppy, indigenous to Asia Minor, was probably first introduced to Southeast Asia by Arab merchants during the Middle Ages, remaining an exotic rarity until British and French trading companies began importing it into China during the 18th century. Chinese EmigrEs then brought their habits with them, setting up opium dens in most of Asia's major capitals and introducing locals to the drug. At one point, during the 1930s, the kingdom of Siam earned 14% of its revenue from its 1,000 licensed opium dens. In French-controlled Indochina, 15% of government revenue came from taxes on opium sales...
...growth. Either way, there is a general consensus that China is a serious competitor to the rest of Asia. And assuming nations in the region don't orchestrate a turnaround soon, the current slump might provide China with an opportunity to steal the show. Many foreign investors already shun Southeast Asian nations in favor of China's huge market and cheap manpower. The $1.9 billion that Motorola spent on a semiconductor plant in Tianjin last year was more than the company has invested in Malaysia in the past three decades. More companies are likely to choose China if the rest...
...dried up. Hurt badly by Korea's high cost of labor and the economic slump, he is thinking about moving to China. Hundreds of his compatriots have already gone, and big companies in Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand are doing the same. "China has the potential to wipe Southeast Asia off the map as a manufacturing base," says Michael Enright, a business professor at Hong Kong University. "These nations are going to have to find new sources of growth...
...view from the top of Yucca Mountain in Nevada sweeps down past hillsides tangled with creosote bush to the rocky, sun-baked desert floor, with Las Vegas about 90 miles to the southeast. The proximity to that city is a problem for Nevadans--and perhaps for the future of nuclear power in this country--because the Federal Government wants to bury inside Yucca Mountain the most toxic garbage that humankind has produced: 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by America's 103 nuclear power plants. A thousand feet below the mountain's peak, a tunneling machine called...