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| | TIME.com: How Hiroshima Rose From the Ashes -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Hiroshima today is a pleasant, prosperous city of 1.1 million people, with everyday concerns that are mostly no different from those of any other city in the developed world. |
 | | One day in mid-July, Hiroshima's mayor, the M.I.T.-educated, English-speaking Tadatoshi Akiba, confesses that he is consumed at the moment with efforts to build a new baseball stadium for the city's baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. |
 | | Hiroshima International University planning professor Norioki Ishimaru says parliamentarians from Hiroshima were smart enough to know that their request could not come "with an accusing tone," lest they be turned down by General Douglas MacArthur's occupation headquarters in Tokyo. |
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