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...plotted out an evening of eating. (When flying to Taipei, don't bother touching a morsel on the plane.) We head to Liaoning Street in northeast Taipei where vendors famous for their seafood concoctions line the crowded alley. Xiao Gugu waves us over to a woman who is ladling taro batter onto a round grill. We watch as she nonchalantly cracks two eggs over the clear taro and smooths the mixture into a perfect circle. She then sprinkles plump oysters over the omelette and folds it all together. Served with a sweet and spicy sauce, one uhwajian, as the oyster...
...Shortly after Masako's pregnancy was announced, there was a flurry of discussion about changing imperial laws to scrap the requirement that a male take the throne. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi himself said he thought it was a good idea. But last month, a leading Liberal Democratic Party politician, Taro Aso, said such discussion was premature. "We are not at a point where we can assume that no boys will be born in the future," Aso said. Of course, that was before the birth of the princess. The next round of royal debate has begun: Can Japan tolerate an Empress...
...some of these artists see life as a continuing war zone, Taro Shinoda has devised his own novel means of escape. With Personal Satellite Project, 2000, he has constructed a suite of prototype rocket launchers and satellites which he plans eventually to send into space. For this, Shinoda's inspiration is Japan's annual Bon Festival, when paper lanterns are sent down waterways in the hope of transporting the souls of the dead...
...reality, not even journalists are that simple. Karl Taro Greenfeld, TIME Asia's deputy editor, probably thought he had a straightforward, if somewhat unusual, profiling assignment facing him when he touched down in Kathmandu, Nepal, two Fridays ago. He was there to write this week's cover story, the heroic tale of Erik Weihenmayer, a blind man who had scaled Mount Everest. But in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Greenfeld was roused in order to track down a different beast altogether--the story behind the assassinations of the King, Queen and much of the royal family of Nepal...
Your article on addiction to methamphetamines in Asia was informative [WORLD, April 2]. However, writer Karl Taro Greenfeld seems to share the illusion of those helplessly addicted to speed, that success lies in materialism. He fails to see the contradiction when he mentions that the path to recovery is spiritual. The very fact that strict disciplinary measures do not act as a deterrent to drug use confirms the view that the remedy lies elsewhere. It is perhaps because of the prevalent misconception of success that frustrated people seek transient solace in dangerous chemicals like methamphetamine. ABHAY CHATURVEDI Mysore, India...