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...ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current mayor, says this was one of the critical turning points in Hiroshima's recovery. The assistance created jobs and provided the city with an emotional core, something meaningful to build on ground zero...
...major shift in the way the global economy works: the knock against Asia is that it saves too much and spends too little, while the U.S. spends too much and saves too little?leading to huge U.S. deficits that some economists fear could destabilize the world economy. If Asians begin to spend more, export-led economies everywhere will be less dependent upon U.S. spending for growth, reducing the risk of a recession should American consumers falter. The 2.1% rise in the yuan "is a baby step, but it is the start of a very important process," says Frank Gong, chief...
What can he do about it? We're about to find out. In May, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a campaign to reduce childhood obesity in the U.S. within 10 years. The effort will begin in earnest in September, and as I traveled with the former President last week, he outlined his plans...
...search for Harper’s replacement, who must be elected by the Corporation, which includes Summers, will begin shortly, the University said in a statement...
Freeman attributes the U.S.’s earlier dominance in science and engineering to market capitalism, which gave it an economic advantage over command economies like the USSR and China. As those countries turn to market capitalism, the U.S. will begin to lose its lead, he said...