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...looking and listening in the wrong places. Japanese seismologists understandably have positioned underground sensors to pick up rumblings along the notorious faults that run under the Pacific off Japan; they are believed to be the source of the devastating 1923 temblor that killed 143,000 people in Tokyo and Yokohama. American scientists have kept a close watch on the San Andreas fault that runs for 650 miles through California from north of San Francisco nearly to the Mexican border. But the Kobe and Northridge quakes occurred not along these major inter-plate faults--cracks where continent-size plates grind against...
...ends with a single book. Inevitably, the photographs that come from it are at the center of "Robert Frank: Moving Out," a retrospective of his work that opened last week at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and that over the next 18 months will move to Yokohama, Zurich, Amsterdam, New York City and Los Angeles. But with this show it is possible to see the pictures as part of the bumpy course of Frank's larger career. It's a trip as harrowing in its way, as moving and mysterious, as any of the ones he made across...
Sunday: After a dismal 3-1 loss to the Yokohama Bay Stars, the Giants are just one game ahead of the Chunichi Dragons. Angry fans boo manager Shigeo Nagashima, littering the field with discarded megaphones ($6 each). Analysts link the team's slump to the lackluster performance of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Tuesday: Outfielder Dan Gladden, left, formerly of the Detroit Tigers, dons a kamikaze bandanna for courage. But the crucial game against the Dragons is rained out. Wednesday: Tied with Dragons after disastrous 0-1 defeat. Thursday: Rematch scratched as tropical typhoon Orchid hits...
...over the Chiba Lotte Marines. Thursday: The Tigers lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history to win 100 career games. Friday: The once mighty Giants lose, 1-0, to the fifth-ranked Yokohama Bay Stars, forcing a tight pennant race with the second-place Hiroshima Carp and third-place Dragons...
There were no reports of any breakthroughs in the fight against AIDS at the 10th annual international conference on the disease, held this year in Yokohama, Japan. One approach, which received some attention and may be tried next year, would use the tools of genetic engineering to alter newborns' immune systems so they can fight off the infection. For the most part, however, new ideas were few and far between. Conference organizers decided to stop holding the meeting annually, and will instead gather together every other year...