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...foam that fell off. In that respect, it shows that the work of the past two years has produced a lot of results. It's about as clean as a shuttle can be after liftoff, but having lost seven people to a foam-related, NASA has moved toward zero tolerance...
...went to war. If you studied science and engineering, the government postponed your draft in order to have you make weapons." Tsuboi was on the way to his university on Aug. 6 when the Enola Gay dropped Little Boy over Hiroshima. He was less than a mile from ground zero, near a place to this day marked by the domed skeleton of what had been a government office building in the center of town. It was 8:15 on a bright, hot, brilliantly clear morning, and hell had arrived on earth...
...Hiroshima officials struck on the idea of reinventing the city. They proposed the construction of a large peace memorial as the city's new anchor. The memorial eventually became the Peace Memorial Park, a graceful 30-acre site not far from ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current...
...Hollwyood movies zero in on their core demographic of dateless 14-year-old boys, European films of the art-house variety are trying to be more adult by showing more sex. Not pretend sex, to mirror the spectacles of fake violence in summer action pictures, but genuine, clinical whoopee. The French led the way, with the sex-splatter epic Baise-moi and Catherine Breillat's Romance. Now comes the first film (actually, digital video) by a respected British director--Michael Winterbottom, whose works include Welcome to Sarajevo, Jude and 24 Hour Party People...
...Hiroshima this year to photograph the hibakusha and record their stories. Seventy agreed to pose, some holding childhood photos or pictures of family members killed in the bombing. The survivors wrote their names in white marker next to their portraits and recorded how far they were from ground zero on Aug. 6. Taken together, the pictures are striking reminders of the bomb's life-altering effects. And they bear witness to the human capacity to withstand the worst ravages...