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...person entering the lobby of Honda Motor Co.'s Wako Research Center just outside of Tokyo, the robot advances toward the reception desk, stops, bows and says in a prepubescent boy's voice: "Welcome to the Honda R. and D. center. My name is ASIMO." When the visitor offers to shake hands, ASIMO extends a mechanical hand in response. Then, on cue from a Honda employee, the robot waves and emits a chirpy...
...Does the Parks Service really need to photograph every single visitor to the Lincoln Memorial?” Moynihan asked...
...about the gangs of heavily-armed thugs who rob and murder with no recourse. Rall's interpreter explains that having someone killed would cost $100 if you bargained well. "Would anybody care?" Rall asks. "Why would they?" is the hard-boiled reply. Even through his limited experience as an visitor, Rall's story opens a window on the Afghani's life. As a product of near constant war and strife, they have created a culture of near-instantaneous adaptation and opportunism...
...Kabul, Washington had a higher murder rate than any of them. Last year, when I took my 70-year-old mother on holiday to Syria, she quickly saw that its people were much friendlier than the country's dictatorship suggested, that the roads were clean and that (for a visitor in any case) life was in most respects as safe as in the affluent California town where she lives. Insofar as such places are difficult, traveling abroad allows us to appreciate better all the opportunities and freedoms of home that we otherwise take for granted...
...Madrid and the Hispanic Society in New York City. We must be content with The Duchess of Alba and "La Beata," 1795, the enchanting picture of Alba at play, her black fleece of curls cascading down her back--"There is not a hair on her head," wrote a French visitor to Madrid, "that does not excite desire"--tormenting her pious old servant, la Beata, with a red coral charm for repelling the evil...