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...mining town of 130,000, Yubari has shrunk to 13,000 people, with 40% of them 65 years old or over. In the 1980s and '90s town officials tried to stanch the economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions to remake the city as a tourist destination, only to fail miserably-as Yubari's shuttered amusement park, melon museum and robot museum testify. After racking up over $500 million in debt-roughly 14 times the city's annual tax revenue-Yubari was forced to declare bankruptcy last summer, the first Japanese municipality to do so in 14 years. Late last...
...ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail...
What students fail to realize is just how crazy these people are—not just a little crazy, but follow-the-glorious-leader-and-drink-the-Kool-Aid crazy. LaRouche himself has concocted a whole range of bizarre conspiracy theories—claiming, for example, that the Beatles were British-trained soldiers used for psychological warfare. Despite his homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-Semitic statements, he runs regularly for President as a Democrat (much to party leaders’ annoyance) and believes Dick Cheney (or the “beast-man,” as he calls him) and Lynne...
...tourist guides tell you, is a land of extremes. And nowhere more so than when it comes to customer service. In my first three months here, I have experienced long flight delays with no announcements, waiters who evaded eye contact for 15 minutes or more, and repairmen who failed to turn up at my house for appointments but then arrived unannounced a few days later. At the same time the best airlines in India will send me a text message if my flight is delayed, my kids' doctor rings a couple of days after a visit...
Cross, co-captain of the varsity men’s fencing team, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a rare, fast-growing, and highly malignant form of the disease in which an individual’s bone marrow produces cells that fail to develop into normal red or white blood cells. Cross has already undergone two rounds of chemotherapy but still needs a bone marrow transplant, according to Cross’ teammates and friends...