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A generation later the Japanese are discovering that the challenges of success can be just as tricky as the hardships of defeat. Now that the bionic yen has driven up the price of Japan's products in foreign markets and angry trade partners are threatening to obstruct those exports, the...
"Wise men have remarked on patterns of alternation, of ebb and flow in human history," writes Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in The Cycles of History. Emerson observed that "the two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and the party of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed...
The problem comes when the line is crossed between splendor and risibility. The troublesome answers to Turandot's three riddles are contained in pennants attached to the back of her gleaming aqua dress; as Calaf gives the correct ; answers, her minions unfurl the flags. Too tricky by far, and the...
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Chu foresees a balmy 120 K within a few months, and does not rule out superconductors that could operate at 300 K (room temperature). University of Illinois Physicist John Bardeen, who shared the Nobel Prize in 1972 for his part in explaining the quantum-mechanical basis of superconductivity, agrees that...