Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Japan bashing has become a national sport. Richard Gephardt, whose 1988 presidential campaign pioneered postcommunist xenophobia, gave us a precursor of the game with his anti-Korea TV ads. Michael Dukakis got more to the point with a campaign ad featuring an ominously rising sun. Now even a sensible moderate like Bob Kerrey goes on TV openly exhorting his countrymen to "Fight back, America," leaving little doubt as to whom we are to fight now that the Soviets are no more...
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...RISING SUN by Michael Crichton (Knopf; $22). Japan-bashing has never been more exquisitely calibrated for best-sellerdom. There is a whodunit at the heart of this commercial thriller, but the identity of the bad guys is never in any doubt. Lay out some plastic for this novel before publishers' row becomes a subsidiary of Sony...
Along Highway 80 in West Texas between Midland and Odessa, giant drilling rigs sit rusting in the winter sun. Gas wells that dot the bleak mesquite- covered prairie lie shut down. Downtown Midland has the stark look of an evacuated city, with empty storefronts and vacant building lobbies...
...well as scientists of all sorts, have begun to market their most useful skills and services to the U.S and other nations. Last week Boris Babayan, who created powerful supercomputers for the former Soviet Union's space and nuclear- weapons programs, hired his entire Moscow lab out to Sun Microsystems of Mountain View, Calif., to develop computers and software. Also last week, the U.S. Department of Energy signed a one-year contract with scientists at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear fusion, a potentially limitless energy source that American physicists have been struggling with...