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...teachings throughout Japan. If you're planning to spend any length of time in the country, why not try it for yourself? To hit the tatami mats, you'll need keikogi, the pajama-like training wear (about $75), a reasonable degree of fitness, and, as Peter Rehse, a Canadian teacher of aikido in the city of Himeji, advises, "an open mind. Leave all your preconceptions of martial arts at the dojo's door." Check out these recommended schools...
...TOKYO: Roppongi Yoshinkan Aikido Dojo Housed in the suitably named Bodyplant building, this 40-mat dojo, tel: (81-3) 5772 2791, is run by two self-confessed "Tokyo lifers"?a Canadian and an Australian?each with 20 years of martial-arts training. Students study the yoshinkan style, which emphasizes aerobic exercise and mental discipline. Lessons (in English and Japanese) are about $16 for visitors and $10 for regulars...
...would be happy to do that," Dosanjh told TIME. But it wasn't long before Dosanjh was spelling out the limits of what his country could do. "Canada cannot be the drugstore of the United States," he said last week in a speech at Harvard. "Neither American consumers nor Canadian suppliers should have any illusions otherwise...
...Canadian pharmacy, replete with cheap medicines, is a seductive image for Americans struggling with ever more expensive prescription drugs: If Canada's vaccine supplies can help solve the flu crisis, why can't its cheap drugs do the same for the larger problem of rising health-care costs? So far, the Bush Administration says it will not allow large-scale reimportation of prescription drugs from Canada, where they are 60% to 70% cheaper, unless the U.S. can guarantee that they are safe. Critics call the Bush policy a delaying tactic designed to protect drug companies' profits. The federal Task Force...
...group recently traveled to the Canadian-American club in Watertown for a night of Boston Urban Ceilidh (KAY-lee). This style of Gaelic music and dance is a mixture of the modern and the traditional. Juxtaposing bagpipes and fiddles with electric guitars, the rock-influenced music places an emphasis on traditional tunes that are easy to dance to. In much the same way, the Harvard Celtic Club blends traditional folklore with modern interpretation, making an especially rich milieu of Gaelic history and culture accessible for everyone in the Harvard community...