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Lydia Minatoya's Memoir Provides Tour of Asia.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "Talking To High Monks In The Snow," Lydia Minatoya's memoir of growing up a Japanese American (It's published by Harper Collins).

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Other segments from the episode on March 18, 1992

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, March 18, 1992: Interview with Judy Davis; Interview with Barbara Kopple; Review of Lydia Minatoya's memoir "Talking to High Monks in the Snow."
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Actress Judy Davis.

Australian actress Judy Davis. She first gained fame in the 1979 film "My Brilliant Career." She later starred in "A Passage To India." More recently, she had supporting roles in "Barton Fink" and "Naked Lunch." Her latest role is as a prissy Victorian Englishwoman in the film version of E.M. Forster's "Where Angels Fear To Tread."

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Documentary Filmmaker Barbara Kopple.

Documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Her documentary, "American Dream," chronicles one of the most bitter strikes in recent labor history, the 1984 strike against the Hormel meat packing plant in Austin Minnesota. The film won the 1991 Oscar for best documentary feature. Kopple also won an Oscar in 1977 for "Harlan County, UsA," her documentary of a coal mine strike in Kentucky.

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Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku descries some of the inventions he thinks will appear in the coming century -- including Internet-ready contact lenses, space elevators and driverless cars -- in his book Physics of the Future.

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