Word: bulbed
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...many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb? In Japan, it doesn't matter: there aren't enough of them around to do it. The nation of 127 million has just 20,000 licensed lawyers; on a per-capita basis, the U.S. has 25 times more. This week, however, 68 graduate-level law schools around Japan will open their doors to more than 5,000 would-be attorneys. "I don't want to be a salaryman," says Yuki Imai, 22, a freshman at the University of Tokyo's new law school. "A law degree will give...
...beckoned upstairs by a distraught woman who needed the help of the electrician. When I informed her that he had left for the day and offered my services, she questioned my ability to successfully perform the task. After an arduous interrogation, she revealed her intensely technical request: a light bulb change...
...Modern] almanacs are just bullshit,” he scoffs. “They’re full of ridiculous flower-bulb ads, and they’re like six dollars apiece. But if you go back and read [the original almanacs], they’re just brilliant. Think about the ’zine culture today‚ that’s what these were, except that they’re actually useful. They were the quintessential democratic medium...
...caf?s, noodle joints and bare-bulb fishermen's shacks outside the palace, many Maldivians tell a different story. Here the social indices that matter are one of the world's highest divorce rates and rampant heroin addiction indicated by 1,000 convicted dealers in a capital city of 86,000. Although everyone acknowledges tourism's success, many Maldivians?and international relief workers?charge that it has made multimillionaires of Gayoom's friends while official figures show that 42% of Maldivians earn less than $1 a day. And there's a hot fury reserved for Gayoom himself, whom they and Amnesty...
Behold the Monsoon, one of a trio of snazzy umbrellas at chiasso.com (see Accessories under the watch icon). Slow Flow, our second favorite, sports green squiggly lines. A 6volt light bulb at the pole's peak takes four...