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...appears abroad, at home he seems disengaged and clueless about the real concerns of voters. Despite his insistence that Japan has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, Abe seems unwilling or unable to rein in cabinet ministers who keep raising the unpopular issue. While Japanese are panicking over the decay of the educational system, Abe's answer is to push through a bill calling for a more patriotic curriculum. "The public wants education reform, but not anything like Abe is promoting," says Jeff Kingston, a professor of Japanese history at Temple University's Tokyo campus. "This is gesture politics, rather...
...Council Blasts Harvard in Tree Dispute,” news, Oct. 31), you quote Mary Power, Harvard’s Senior Dir.ector of Community Relations, rebutting neighbors’ claim that Harvard may bear responsibility for damage done to the buttress roots of the tree. Her claim is that decay had been detected back in 2004 and led Harvard’s “experts” to conclude that the tree was a safety hazard. We would like to respond to these somewhat vague and dismissive remarks with some questions. First, if the tree was, in fact...
Harvard’s senior director of community relations, Mary Power, however, said the 110-year-old tree’s decay began long before the University made plans on Grant Street...
...moves about easily, and because he so clearly likes and is curious about people, Gurr is a reliable witness to a changing city. Writing about how property developers moved into bohemian St. Kilda and evicted him from his home of 15 years, Gurr pinpoints the decay: "The first sign, someone said, is an ice-cream parlour." On a train, after meeting two lonely souls, he has an epiphany about the fissure "between ordinary human need and the rhetoric of success." "Believing that your value as a human being is measured by your independence and separation from others is the great...
...once you get to plutonium, with 94 protons, you've run out of naturally occurring elements. They may have once existed, but they're radioactive, and decay so quickly that there's none left on Earth, or, as far as we know, in space. Or there wasn't, rather, until physicists armed with cyclotrons began making them during World War II creating such exotic substances as Americium (94 protons), Curium (96), Berkelium (97). The more protons (and neutrons, which tend to add up even faster), the harder it is to make a new element-but that hasn't stopped scientists...