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...octopus that menaces fishing fleets. Then, in 1954, a Japanese trawler inadvertently sailed into the vicinity of a U.S. hydrogen-bomb test in the Marshall Islands. The crew received dangerous doses of radiation, and 500 tons of fish had to be recalled from ports nationwide after a radiation scare swept the country. The incident, coming less than a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, traumatized Japan. Working with director Ishiro Honda, Tsuburaya turned his octopus into a mutant dinosaur, awakened by a nuclear explosion and not happy about it. The project was quickly green-lighted by the prestigious Toho studio...
...there is much disagreement over the details. Were 200,000 people killed or 300,000? Were 20,000 raped or 80,000? The whole truth may never be known. According to Samuel Yamashita, a professor at Pomona College in the U.S., details of the massacre and other atrocities were swept under the rug in postwar Japan, because the U.S. needed a strong Japanese nation on their side to counterbalance the growing threat of Communist China. "Execute a few heinous individuals and forget about everything else." That's how Joshua Fogel, a modern Asian studies historian at York University...
...understand exactly how to mine those resources when he created the cult-classics “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch.” After a disastrous straying from the crime genre with his 2002 remake of “Swept Away”—starring his wife, Madonna—Ritchie returns to his roots with “Revolver.” Unfortunately, it seems you can’t go home again. This “Revolver” is not loaded. In “Revolver...
...flat-out wrong when he suggested that there is bipartisan agreement that the government should destroy any records on nontargeted Americans that it obtains using this broad new authority. In fact, the Administration and its allies are fighting against far more modest proposals to protect innocent Americans who are swept up in this new, essentially warrantless surveillance. For nearly 30 years, the secret FISA court has provided judicial supervision and oversight when the government carries out surveillance of Americans. President Bush ignored and bypassed that court and the law in approving a warrantless-wiretapping program after Sept. 11. Only after...
...side,” said founder Francesca T. Gilberti ’10, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “It’s all-inclusive.”LOCAVORES UNITEPopularized as the “locavore” movement, the trend of buying local has swept the nation over the past several years. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of farmer’s markets across the country grew by more than 7 percent between 2005 and 2006.“It’s one of the biggest food trends...