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...DIED. JOHN TOLAND, 91, best-selling author whose book The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction; in Danbury, Connecticut. After writing six unpublished novels and 25 unproduced plays, Toland discovered the historical-nonfiction genre with a 1957 book about dirigibles. He followed The Rising Sun with books about the Korean War and an Adolf Hitler biography. His 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath asserted that the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration had advance knowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a claim widely denounced...
Fifty years ago, when a young trucker called Elvis Presley cut his first disk at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, he shelled out $4 for the privilege. These days, the studio charges more than twice that sum just for a tour of the premises. Aspiring rock gods pay thousands of dollars to make a record. (Weird hairstyles are extra.) If you've got that kind of money lying around and are hankering to lay down that song you wrote on your battered guitar at college, here's the tab at some of the world's top facilities. London...
...They say the relocation of 500,000 people won't unclog Seoul. Landowners in Chungcheong aren't complaining: property prices in Daejon rose faster than any other city's in the first nine months of last year. "It'll be like our version of Washington, D.C.," enthuses Lee Jae Sun, an opposition lawmaker who represents Daejon. What no one denies is that the plan, which still faces major hurdles such as an intended campaign to oppose it by the Seoul metropolitan government, would make South Korea's government quite a bit safer. Seoul, 50 km from the Demilitarized Zone separating...
...Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Chair Matthew J. Amorello, the sun might soon rise over a new kind of median, a median defined not by Jersey barriers or Jersey-esque patches of exhaust-wilted grass, but by a sleek, superfast monorail propelled from Springfield to Boston by powerful electromagnets. Commuters would still commute on either side in the familiar car lanes, but they would be the main event no longer—the median’s proud iron steed would have stolen their thunder. A high-tech, vaguely Blade Runner-flavored cream center would have at last filled the transportational Twinkie...
...Minneriya must be one of Sri Lanka's best-kept secrets. In three magical hours, we'd seen just two other cars prowling around. And as the sun began to dip, accompanied by the snapping and cracking of branches, elephants?singly at first, then in tens, then in hundreds?came to the shores of the Minneriya Tank (one of Sri Lanka's major reservoirs) to drink, bathe and play...