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Tokyo Narita International is a ninety minute train ride from Shinjuku Station. I spent the ninety minutes staring out the window, watching rice paddies melt into scattered exurbs into industrial railway bridges into crowded neon skyscrapers into the very definition of the future. It was all quite familiar. I lived in Tokyo nearly half of 2003, as ( Read more... )

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An airplane leaving LaGuardia made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.

The plane floated downriver.

I can see the airplane from my apartment window. Right now.

Everyone got off safely, according to the news. But I can see the tail of an airplane sticking out of the river.

This is so disturbing.

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