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In literature at least, never dismiss the lunatics. They're often the voices of reason. The Chinese learned that lesson in 1918 with Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman. This short story, which told of a world filled with bloodthirsty cannibals, was an attack on imperialists and China's...
(2 of 2) Still, no one envisions energy prices knocking Japan back into recession. Since the 1970s oil shock, the country has diversified its energy sources?expanding nuclear power and natural-gas use, for example?and has learned to conserve. Japan consumed less oil in 2003 than it did in...
The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, a swampy archipelago in the Indian state of West Bengal, which has by way of tourist attraction the dual charms of man-eating tigers and cyclonic storms. Wading into the marshlands are Piya, an Indian-American marine biologist looking for a rare...
Hog-tied in the U.S. by a shrinking market and a powerful antismoking lobby, the Marlboro Man is setting his sights on roomier pastures?China. TIME has learned that Philip Morris is set to begin making the world's best-selling cigarette in the largest tobacco market anywhere. China's...
We have asked if he thinks peace is even possible. Can the U.S.'s enemies ever be defeated, and can you really use an army to plant democracy in an Arab country? That is the question he comes back to in the hot driveway after the formal interview is over...