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...often seems scripted and ill at ease in public-is suffering in comparison to the remarkably mediagenic Koizumi. It doesn't help that Abe's young and inexperienced team lacks influence within its own party. With the LDP and its ruling coalition partner the New Komeito Party in danger of losing control of the upper house of the Diet in July elections, the Oriental Economist Report, a newsletter, recently wondered if Japan was already "on the verge of the 'post...
...Indonesia technical assistance in manufacturing it. For 50 years, the WHO has received free influenza-virus samples from around the world, which it makes available to pharmaceutical firms in order to ensure the production of the best possible vaccine. If Indonesia pulls out, Heymann tells TIME, "there is a danger cooperation could collapse, and that would hurt us all. It puts us at risk of not getting the right vaccine during a pandemic...
Look at the black and yellow symbol on the right. Is it a fan? A propeller? No. It's a trefoil, the international sign used to warn people away from potentially deadly sources of radiation. If you didn't recognize the degree of danger that is supposed to be conveyed by the three-bladed symbol, which represents radiation emitting from an atom, you're not alone. Over the last two decades, at least 20 people have died and more than 400 have been injured after accidentally exposing themselves to radioactive sources, such as radiography units dumped in scrap heaps. Experts...
...scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1940s, the new warning was tested to ensure it's universally understood. Starting in 2001, researchers showed a series of motifs to 1,650 adults and children, many of them illiterate, in 11 different countries. The red background conveys danger; a skull and crossbones and a trefoil emanating rays warns of a threat to life; a running man tells observers to keep away. "We can't teach the world about radiation," says Carolyn MacKenzie, a radiation specialist who helped develop the new symbol. "But, for the price of a sticker...
...past is something everybody shares. It is not a special interest. It belongs to all of us and the entire planet,” Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman said. “I want to state the danger as simply as possible: a person who has no sense of the past cannot imagine the future...