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...This quiet tolerance doesn't include legal rights or full social acceptance, but it does allow Japanese gays and lesbians a limited freedom. Tokyo has long had its own Chelsea in Shinjuku 2-chome, a neighborhood full of shops, nightclubs and bookstores catering to gay people. That's where Pant read about the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village, an uprising against police harassment that many consider the beginning of the gay-rights movement. In Tokyo, Pant also discovered ancient Hindu texts celebrating same-sex love. When he returned to Nepal, he used this knowledge...
...government can't begin to measure the hidden costs, of course, of sleep or sanity or solitude. It fails to factor in marginal expenditures on window-repairing, rug-cleaning, photo-processing, cell phones, sedatives. I'm thinking the bureaucrats have not been to a mall lately, since their tables allow about $60 a month for kids' shoes and clothes. It is true that globalization has driven apparel prices down over the years, but if you have daughters, you confront the annual phenomenon whereby the clothes shrink as the prices rise, leaving you wildly grateful for a school dress code requiring...
...help minimize driver distraction. In the next few months, several technology start-ups will release new products for phones that can detect when a car is in motion and automatically log incoming calls and texts much as a personal assistant would. All the products have provisions that allow both incoming and outgoing calls during emergencies...
...Services to Reduce Driver Distraction Key2SafeDriving Parents can set up a password-protected profile that won't allow calls or texts when a Bluetooth device detects that the car is in motion. $99, then $10 per month for Web services...
...significant portion of the course material cannot be found in the textbook. Take advantage of the unit tests, which enable you to work on practice problems, get individualized help from undergraduate graders, and earn some extra credit. Learn to craft clear, concise answers to your problem sets, which will allow you to perform well under heavy time pressure during exams. Consider attending review sessions offered by another TF during exam period if yours doesn’t offer satisfactory preparation...