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...little boy's predicament aptly illustrates Asia's mixed feelings toward Japan. To the gray-haired generation, memories of military invasions are still vivid. "It's really sad," laments Park Sung Pyo, a 63-year-old retired Seoul businessman. "I try to tell my children about the atrocities. They listen with one ear and it goes out the other ear, and then they buy my grandchildren things from Japan. They didn't live through the colonial experience, so it doesn't seem real to them...
...Trendsetter But for a younger generation of Asians, there is no confusion about Japan's role as the epicenter of cool. Weaned on pop music, platform boots and tea hair (and gray hair, pink hair, blond hair and no hair), these kids may eventually offer the best hope for a less hostile and more nuanced view of Japan...
...George W. Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove is supposed to keep the President in a healthy political glow. But on one key issue recently, Rove stood by while Bush turned as gray as a hazy day in Houston. Bush abandoned a campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, rejected the Kyoto global-warming treaty, suspended new arsenic standards for drinking water--and began to look suspiciously like the eco-villain Al Gore warned us about. Moderate Republicans were getting jittery. So last week Rove and other aides pulled out the green paints and brushes and set to work...
...from where blacks were beaten as they marched for the right to vote 100 years after the end of the Civil War, and not far from the "I Had a Dream" monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a statue of Forrest was raised on city property. The slate-gray memorial and its bright rebel symbol were approved during the 36th and final year of onetime segregationist Mayor Joe Smitherman's time in office. It was unveiled five days after the first black mayor in city history, James Perkins, was inaugurated...
...LIVING CALLER We love our cell phones (except when we hate them), but nobody likes squinting at those murky little gray-and-black screens. Now we don't have to. Sanyo's new SCP-5000 phone ($500, available only from Sprint PCS) is the first in the U.S. with a screen that displays colors--256 of them, to be exact. Download tiny digital photos of your pals, and when they call, the SCP-5000 will show you their smiling faces. It also surfs the Web, stores 500 phone numbers and 300 e-mail addresses, and plays an incomprehensible game called...