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...most of the past 20 years, Japan has been in a state of political and economic paralysis. Ever since its property-and-stock-price bubble collapsed in the early 1990s, the economy has teetered on the edge of recession, occasionally tumbling into one. With one exception (Junichiro Koizumi), the country has been captained by a series of leaders who seemed content to reluctantly repair the economy so that it doesn't outright sink, but not enough for it to return to the high-flying days of yesteryear. What I find most baffling about Japan is how a nation...
...George Brock, a professor of journalism at London's City University. Even the 50-pence-a-day model fails to convince Brock, who argues that a price cut works only as part of a long-term strategic plan. When the Times of London cut its prices in the early 1990s to undercut its rivals, the move made sense only as part of a "seven or eight"-year plan, he says. Circulation did increase, and eventually the newspaper was able to raise its prices again. (Read "From Soviet Agent to London Newspaper Proprietor...
...fighting between the Congolese army and various rebel groups in recent years, as well as mining for metals such as gold and coltan. In 2009, scientists found a previously unknown group of 750 eastern lowland gorillas, but their numbers are still down from about 17,000 in the mid 1990s to 5,000 today...
Since the mid 1990s, Harvard faculty and students have flown out to two outposts in Botswana and Tanzania—the cornerstones of Harvard’s presence in Africa—to conduct ground-breaking HIV/AIDS research...
After returning to Los Angeles, Breitbart met Matt Drudge, founder of the conservative Drudge Report. It was the mid-1990s, and the Web was in its infancy. Breitbart went to work for Drudge and served as his legman for 15 years, learning how to excavate news items from databases and wire-service feeds. More than that, he adopted Drudge's contrarian worldview. "Matt rejects entrenched thinking," says Breitbart. If Drudge (who did not respond to messages seeking comment about his protégé) taught Breitbart a new way of seeing, it was another former employer, Arianna Huffington (who also...