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...Where a formal industry or hotel course doesn't yet exist, there may be a casual class to drop in on. In Tokyo, various kinds of sake are explained by independent expert John Gauntner, sake-world.com, in English-language seminars staged about once a month. Popular with expats and tourists, the events typically draw about 40 people and are held in restaurants or sake pubs. Each seminar costs $60 (including a meal) and lasts about three hours. "Going to these seminars helps people know what to look for, what makes one kind of sake different from another," says former participant Melinda...
...unusual for candidates to withdraw their names this late in presidential search, said Judith B. McLaughlin, a senior lecturer on education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and an expert on presidential transitions...
...college room is like a team, then every students needs to understand sports. After taking this course with visiting professor Amy L. Baltzell, you’ll be giving motivational speeches like an expert quarterback throws the ball. It’s about mindset, it’s about winning—it’s all about the game...
...That could be a huge problem for the U.S. if the simmering conflict over Taiwan ever boils over. "The Chinese understand how dependent the Americans are on these spy satellites," says John Pike, a satellite expert with GlobalSecurity.org. "And they understand how easy it is to shoot them down." A strike against intelligence-gathering satellites, he theorizes, would likely be China's first move in any military action against Taiwan. "If the Chinese are to have any hope of grabbing Taiwan while nobody is looking, they have to win quickly," Pike says. "They have to present the Americans with...
...Still, the missile test may yet prove a strategic blunder for the mainland, argues Kurt Campbell, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and former top-level U.S. defense department official. "The fundamental principle of China's foreign policy for the last three or four years has been to do nothing that will alert the world to China's arrival as a world power," Campbell says. The test, while sending a clear signal to Taiwan about China's capabilities, may also embolden American neoconservatives who want the U.S. to aggressively challenge China's military and economic...