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...known in the industry as "the heat detector," the man who launches hot writers and discovers new artists. He has turned the staid Japanese publishing business on its head by selling to the demographic previously written off by traditional publishers as the manga market. He published the poetry book Ejiki by singer-actor-writer Kou Machida seven years before the writer received the Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film...
...ARTS Media: The Heat Detector Books: The Man Who Made India...
Merle Bicknell, assistant director of physical resources in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in September that the triggers for this year’s alarms have included burning toast, system malfunctions and even a sink that overflowed onto a smoke detector...
...asked us to contribute some tough, hardworking people to train for missions inside Iraq," says Janabi. "So I gave them al-Jaburi." The introduction, al-Jaburi recalls, was made in a coffee shop in Amman on Oct. 18. Al-Jaburi says CIA officers, with the aid of a lie detector, questioned him for days on a range of topics, including whether he was volunteering or being coerced to join. One question probed what he would do if he found his brother fighting against him. "I'd kill him," al-Jaburi says he answered. On Nov. 22, al-Jaburi says...
Vincent James, a cook in Adams dining hall, said one evacuation was caused by smoke from a toaster setting off a newly-installed detector. He said that the detector was moved a few feet away from the toaster after the alarm...