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...longer genuflects to corporate Japan as it did in the 1980s, the black-suited gerontocracy still enjoys almost unquestioned influence at home. While you might have heard about the spiky-haired, anime-loving hipsters who are supposedly shaking up Japan, in truth most young people here still dream of joining the ranks of Sony or Canon or Toyota, just like Dad did. And why not? If you work hard enough - which is to say, put in 16-hour days for 30 years or so - you too could earn a place among the elite, eating fugu on the company dime. Being...
...sure about where you live, but in Australia, where I'm from, it's bad form to sound your horn outside a hospital. It may even be illegal, but in any case obedient Australians would never dream of testing the authorities' patience. In Bangladesh a hospital seems to be an invitation to make as much noise as possible. Outside a hospital in Dhaka, waiting to interview an academic who was temporarily incapacitated, I noticed each driver in line to get into the small drop-off area was letting off steam by blasting their horns and shouting abuse at the people...
...Leica camera on Time's cover [Dec. 18]. It was completely appropriate that the best photos of 2006 were introduced by the camera of the last century! The Leica camera was, from the very beginning, the ultimate tool for many great professional photographers as well as the ultimate dream of so many great - and less great - amateurs. Notwithstanding the often superb quality of its competitors, anybody with a heart for photography has to admit that there was one thing prized above all else: the Leica. Ingemar Lindahl Lidkoping, Sweden...
Bionade's founders don't dream of global conquest for its own sake. They speak passionately about what they describe as the drink's deeper meaning. "Bionade is a totally idealistic product. Of course we want to make money, but honestly, this was an attempt to give people something better," says Bionade's ceo, Peter Kowalsky...
...upper-middle-class Jewish suburban town, I was smart enough to know that no one I grew up with would ever play major league baseball. But I did dream this: Perhaps one of us upper-middle class Jews would become a sportswriter who got to vote for the Hall of Fame...