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...long-term western expatriates in Japan inhabit an Edenic state of bourgeois affluence with no strings attached. We enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, yet remain untroubled by civic duties. We can't vote, we may lack linguistic fluency, our opinions are presumed to derive from our national stereotypes, we rarely blip on the national radar, so we are absolved from caring overly about where we live. Japan's problems, except in a Japanwatching way, are not our problems. However, as someone who intends to return in five years to put a child through Japan's elementary-school system, the country...
...move to a wartime footing and that budget deficits would have to return to fight both Osama bin Laden and the recession. Republican strategists on Capitol Hill tell me their polls still show that the deficits Bush is proposing the next two years are barely raising a blip on the public radar screen...
...possible to have graduate students advise a thesis, but it is regrettable that we will have to lean more on them because we try to involve faculty more in writing theses,” he said. “This will be a blip for senior theses...
...blink, extend your life by decades. Doing the same thing on a global level--and throwing in progress on disease treatment too--can cause the life expectancy of the entire species to inch further and further out. There are about 50,000 centenarians in the U.S.--a blip in a country of close to 300 million people. But over time, those tens of thousands could creep into the millions. It takes work to join their ranks, but it is work more and more people may be willing...
...course, ancient advances do not mean that much to women 14 centuries later if reform is, rather than a process, a historical blip subject to reversal. While it is impossible, given their diversity, to paint one picture of women living under Islam today, it is clear that the religion has been used in most Muslim countries not to liberate but to entrench inequality. The Taliban, with its fanatical subjugation of the female sex, occupies an extreme, but it nevertheless belongs on a continuum that includes, not so far down the line, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan and the relatively moderate states...