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...After all, if you're Chinese, the attractions of moving to Japan are multiple: Tokyo is only a short flight away from the Asian mainland, and since Mandarin and Japanese share a common writing system, it's easier for Chinese to gain fluency in Japanese than in Western languages. Still, no amount of linguistic proficiency makes up for potentially abusive immigration policies. Take Tokyo's practice of attracting foreign labor under so-called practical-training visas, which allow for three-year internships. In 2005, more than 55,000 Chinese entered Japan under this scheme. But last year alone, the program...
...this straight: TIME passed up inventions that save energy, produce energy, make us safer, make our commutes easier, protect us from diseases, reduce our impact on our finite resources and bring knowledge to the Third World to name a cool new cell phone as Invention of the Year? Steve Jordan, Germantown...
...Justin Fox wrote a very good article on Denmark. He noted that its per capita income trails that of the U.S., but salaries here tend to be higher than in Britain. And while it might be easier to fire a worker in Denmark than elsewhere in Europe, companies must follow strict rules that require advance notice of termination. I have been a resident of Denmark since 1989, and I have no desire to return to Britain. John Barton, Vejle, Denmark...
...Prabhakar, who is advising two candidates without any UC experience, added that he believed that the election commission’s rules had been “manipulated by insiders to make it easier for incumbents,” and criticized the rival campaign of UC insiders Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Randall S. Sarafa ’09 for having staffers solely devoted to looking for violations in opposing campaigns...
...text, which should be a letdown to anyone with an iPhone. And it’s likely that customers, used to bright, full-color screens even on basic cell phones, will find Kindle’s two-tone e-paper display a letdown, even if it does make reading easier...