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...became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren. "I experienced so much pain, but I am happy now," Tsuboi says. "I can say that I am filled with happiness." - With reporting by Donald Macintyre/Seoul, Yuki Oda/Hiroshima and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...seriously. Its 59 generators and treatment facilities are protected by armed guards and, following 9/11, aerial radar. Nuclear power plants are state-managed, eliminating the profit motive as an incentive for cutting back on safety. --Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Hanna Kite/Hong Kong, J.F. O. McAllister/ London, Ursala Sautter/Bonn and Toko Sekiguchi/Tokyo
...illegal mah-jongg became a hit, she went on to cultivate her personal style of manga (the Japanese term for comics), which now has many imitators. Says Saibara: "People who can draw well are too proud to do anything, and many of them are still starving artists." --By Toko Sekiguchi...
...says Martin Reynolds, an analyst at technology-consulting company Gartner in Stamford, Conn. If the Asian glut continues, chances are you'll be able to have a flat TV hanging in your living room long before that. --With reporting by Adam Pitluk/Dallas, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco, Coco Masters and Toko Sekiguchi/ Tokyo, and Joyce Huang/Taipei
...Project--after the Japanese name for the comic-book robot superhero known in the U.S. as Astro Boy. "Atom was abandoned by its creator, who built it to replace his dead son, because it was incapable of growing," Kawato notes. "We know how to make our Atom learn." --By Toko Sekiguchi