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...Japan's largest export destination.) Like Abe, Fukuda has avoided angering Beijing by refraining from official visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead, including 14 convicted Class-A war criminals from World War II. But the delicate relationship between China and Japan contains many potential flash points, among them disputed exploration rights to gas deposits in the East China Sea and a disagreement over how pesticide-laced, Chinese-made dumplings wound up in Japanese stores...
...product that I was immensely proud of, because it just looked so good. You had all these fancy graphics - cricket balls spinning in from different angles, or tennis balls, or footballs, or whatever - which, I think, made a difference. It was very interactive, we used a lot of Flash technology, which was unusual at the time...
...until my comp directors unveiled “The Chart”: an enormous, carefully drawn spiderweb of black spoken culture from the 1950’s to the mid 1990’s. Martin Luther King, Jr. led to rapper-poet Saul Williams led to Grandmaster Flash through an intimidating network of chutes and ladders. Complicating matters, modern hip-hop has a rich history of allusions, invented mythologies, and shorthands. These can be sort of boring, e.g. the aforementioned EPMD (stands for Eric and Parrish Making Dollars). But others are both esoteric and extensively catalogued, in such an attractive...
...sudden storm during a canyoning exercise caused the deaths of six of the students and a teacher. Canyoning, also called canyoneering, is an increasingly popular sport in which participants walk, run, climb, and swim through river gorges. All of the dead drowned when they were washed away by a flash flood...
...rising to 40% in March from February's 37%, the low point in what had been his 30% drop since July. The fillip stemmed from Sarkozy's triumphant state visit to London last month, where his sober demeanor impressed a French public that has wearied of his taste for flash. The "re-presidentialization" of his image seemed to be winning back many of the conservative voters turned off by Sarkozy's earlier "bling-bling" persona; Elysée officials felt they turned the corner after the right's drubbing during nation-wide municipal elections last month...