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...prose captured the alienation the author felt growing up as the son of a Chinese- laundry owner in a Long Island, N.Y., suburb. Pangs of Love, whose darkly humorous tales were written over the past seven years, recounts the adventures of a Chinese-American waiter working in a Japanese sushi bar, an Americanized son who can communicate with his Cantonese-speaking mother only in a pidgin version of her language, and the Chinese invention of baseball. Says Louie: "Asian Americans are still marginalized. I feel I have to write from those margins and tell what the experience is like...
...watch out for camera-clicking tourists in the Yard. Otherwise, we'll be eating sushi soon...
...novel electronic gadgets ranging from computer-controlled air conditioners to golf-swing analyzers. The concept of fuzziness has struck a cultural chord in a society whose religions and philosophies are attuned to ambiguity and contradiction. Says Noboru Wakami, a senior researcher at Matsushita: "It's like soy sauce and sushi -- a perfect match...
Cajun food may come and go, the sushi market may bottom out--the face of Mass. Ave., though, is sure to be different...
...blame for the moral defoliation of the '80s, / they deserve some recognition for their redemption. "We're trying to break the cycle of you get up, you go to work, step over a homeless person on the way to the subway, go to the gym, go to the sushi bar, go home and fall asleep," says Kenneth Adams, executive director of New York Cares, a sort of charitable clearinghouse for yuppies that has recruited 600 young volunteers to tutor dropouts, serve in soup kitchens, renovate housing and visit the elderly. "The Me generation is dying," says Adams, "and New York...