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...Those back home are eager to learn about the world, too. Onishi recalls how he signed on as a guest lecturer at two top Tokyo universities and wondered whether anyone would show up to hear about remote corners of the earth. Both courses ended up being oversubscribed, with some eager students forced to stand through the lectures. Another telling barometer is the number of Japanese specialist personnel working for the United Nations, which has increased to nearly 700 today from less than 500 seven years ago. "Among the Japanese public," says co-editor Watanabe, "there's a sense that since...
...with a similar determination that Lu fights for an answer to why the Beichuan No. 1 Middle School caved in, crushing his daughter. Lu had just had lunch with her in town an hour before the quake struck. He felt the earth move as he waited for a bus back to their mountain village. Rocks tumbled down from a nearby peak, but as soon as the tremors eased he ran to the school. "The five-story building was completely flattened and young, broken bodies were everywhere," he says. "There were parents here and there, crying and digging for their children...
...doomed. No matter what we do, something is going to get us eventually--a comet already whizzing toward Earth, maybe, or exploding methane gas unleashed by global warming. De Villiers takes a virtual flight around the globe to examine the natural threats to our existence, from earthquakes to tornadoes to plagues. It's a mix of sobering facts enlivened by historical anecdotes. Take, for example, the Portuguese king who became morbidly afraid of buildings after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake or the poisonous red ants which descended on a Caribbean town during a 1902 volcanic eruption. More worrisome is the realization...
Democrats face internal divisions on other economy-related issues too. Liberals are eager to tackle a big agenda, including a tax hike on the wealthy and a bigger public-works stimulus package. But reality may bring the party's leadership back down to earth. The senior Democratic aide expects no upper-income tax hikes or big infrastructure investments, and says the stimulus package rolled out this week will be restrained. "It'll be unemployment-benefits extension, a federal Medicaid matching program and allowing small businesses to write off immediately more of the expenses," the aide says. Even so, the package...
...wedding ring on a rope line in Michigan because she could not afford to make a contribution to his campaign and the truck driver who appeared on his behalf at public rallies. "I was only carrying mail to the mailboxes," he writes. "It was the salt-of-the-earth types like my unknown angel in Michigan who actually wrote the letters...