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Apparently, it wasn't the Bomb.

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They weren't during the reign of the last Manchus, and they aren't today. If many of the Imperial treasures have disappeared, the avarice of the eunuchs in the Imperial Household Department was as much to blame as outright western appropriation. The traditions of the Nei Wu Fu, it appears, are honored still today.

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Peter Wynn Kirby offers a profound and thoughtful reflection on Japan's troubled relationship with the atom. Despite the whimsical title, the essay provides a moving peek into a little-understood (by Gaijin) part of Japan's national psyche.

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"The book I was writing, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, came out just over 25 years ago, in the waning days of 1984. My editor had urged me to be ambitious, and so I shot high, crafting a 450-page narrative in three parts, making the case that hackers — brilliant programmers who discovered worlds of possibility within the coded confines of a computer — were the key players in a sweeping digital transformation."

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Having spent 300 pages explaining the importance of his six killer applications in the fortunes of the West, Ferguson then looks spellbound at the rise of the one power that has done the least to 'download' them. 'What we are living through now is the end of 500 years of Western predominance.' The twenty-first century is China's for the taking.

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How General Motors Deliberately Destroyed Public Transit

by Bradford Snell

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"The inside story of Malibu Beach, Hollywood’s fabulous resort for the most expensive sunburns in the world.
By James M. Cain"

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"In a town that worships youth, the Motion Picture Home was a refuge for industry elders, until its future was put in peril. David Margolick reports on the grassroots battle to save it."

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"
The adventures of Wild Bill Donovan and the “Oh So Social” O.S.S."

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"In April 1943, 25-year-old John F. Kennedy arrived in the Pacific and took command of the PT-109. Just months later, the boat collided with a Japanese ship, killing two of his men (John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, PC101). "

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"This includes the West’s penchant for moral relativism, which has been embraced with particular enthusiasm by Stalin apologists, who have, in the manner of Holocaust deniers, been working feverishly to establish the Man of Steel’s innocence, in particular for the mass bloodletting of the Great Terror. The strange fruits of this revisionist endeavor, which has accompanied a general surge in Russian nationalism and imperialism, have cropped up in bookshops as shelves overflow with volumes adorned with Joseph Stalin’s face, sanitized of its pockmarks, the authors determined to “prove” the utter innocence of the Soviet leader. Apologetics of this order stopped forever after Khrushchev denounced his predecessor in 1956—or so it was thought. But in fact the freeze on Stalinism has been thawing ever since the fall of Communism two decades ago."

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"Certainly, the bright lights of optimism that burned in Europe when the Iron Curtain came down twenty years ago were all too quickly extinguished. Hopes that the collapse of Soviet repression in the Eastern bloc and the removal of the threat of nuclear confrontation would usher in a new era of peace, unity and prosperity rapidly evaporated."

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"In early October of 1860, the commanders of the British and French forces waging war on Qing Dynasty China held a tense conference outside the gates of the Garden of Perfect Brightness — Yuanmingyuan — on the western outskirts of Beijing. "

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On Feb. 21, 1911, Frenchman René Vallon took off from a racecourse and flew a Sommer Biplane above Shanghai to mark the birth of flight — and aerospace marketing — in China.

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"In curricula from K-12 to history graduate school, it is staple fare that as a new nation in the early nineteenth century, the United States nurtured its “infant industry” into adulthood by having a protective tariff that kept out cheap mass-made European goods. After a century of trade protectionism, the story goes, U.S. industry was so strong that it was the most productive in the world."

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"Mediated memories of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, while sitting in an Air China airport gate "

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"While the Japanese debated the merits of the proposed operations, the United States Navy was trying to marshal its forces to counter the next Japanese offensive, but they did not know where or when the Japanese would strike. This was critical for two reasons: First, the United States was committed to a defensive war in the Pacific--they had to wait and react to Japanese actions, and, second, since they were committed to defend the Hawaii-Australia line with inferior numbers and weapons, the only real chance for success was to concentrate their forces at the right place at the right time. "

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"A Priceless Advantage:
U.S. Navy Communications Intelligence and
the Battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians
Frederick D. Parker"

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"A Magnificent Fight:

Marines in the Battle for Wake Island

Marines in World War II
Commemorative Series



by Robert J. Cressman"

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"United States Army in World War II
The War in the Pacific
The Fall of the Philippines
Louis Morton "

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