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...protest, the opposition parties have begun to boycott budget sessions in the Diet legislature. "We cannot accept that the ministry that deals with grave social issues like decreasing population is headed by someone who has demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the people," says Yoshiaki Takaki, head of the Diet policy committee for the main opposition Democratic Party of Japan...
...Harvard Extension School has begun to advertise some of its courses by offering trailers free of charge to the general public on iTunes U, a service that allows colleges and universities to distribute educational content over the Internet. The Extension School, which is one of the three schools comprised by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), should be applauded for this innovative project, which will further the school’s mission to provide continuing education to the general public. But for courses offered in the other two schools of FAS—the College and the Graduate School...
...private venues. The measure, which came into force on Thursday, limits indoor smoking in collectively-used areas to sealed "fumoirs," the specifications for which are so rigid and so costly that few have been built. To enforce the law, some 175,000 agents - primarily labor and health inspectors - have begun scrutinizing places of work, commerce and administration during their rounds for signs or smells of illicit puffing. They can fine errant smokers $88, and employers up to $975 for repeated infractions. But even if every one of France's 15 million smokers were caught brown-fingered during an illegal drag...
...ship looks to be sinking for Tigers coach Joe Scott. He suffered through a brutal first season before rebounding nicely last year, but with another bad start to the league slate, the rumblings have begun afresh...
...year-old Sasaya was growing up here, it was a thriving city of over 100,000 people, most working in the coalmines scattered throughout the surrounding mountains. But by the time Sasaya had left for college in Tokyo, the mines were closing and many of the townsfolk had begun moving to larger, more prosperous cities...