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...Your report on the friction between China and Japan may send the wrong message to the people of both countries. As a Japanese studying in Beijing, I have never encountered an anti-Japanese demonstration in the two years I have been here. Although there are some Chinese who are hostile to the Japanese, they are in the minority and regarded simply as impolite. In Japan, as far as I know, those who view China as an enemy are also in the minority. Nationalism in either country is not a threat to the Sino-Japanese relationship. The people of Japan...
...applying for and receiving a hunting license for the past four years. Hunting was a fundamental part of Hmong life in Laos, where it was done quite differently: there were no prescribed hunting seasons and rarely any delineations between public and private land. One of the few areas of friction between the ethnic groups has been caused by hunting restrictions. Some Hmong say white hunters have threatened them, and white hunters have complained that Hmong do not respect private property. In the North Woods, private and public lands abut each other, and the only way to know the difference...
...getting a human into space is the easy part; it's getting them back that causes the real trouble. The friction of the atmosphere, combined with Earth's gravitational pull, creates an intense and deadly heat. The space shuttle solved this problem with millions of dollars' worth of tiles on its underbelly (although, as a shocked world saw last year, that system is not foolproof...
China's stepped-up efforts have already created some friction. Earlier this year ONGC Videsh, the overseas-investment arm of India's largest oil and gas producer, was on the verge of completing a deal for an 11% stake in a proven oil field in Sudan when China's CNPC swooped in with an offer reportedly 17% higher--and snatched the deal away. "The Chinese are definitely very aggressive in the price they are willing to pay," says R.S. Butola, managing director of ONGC Videsh. Beijing has demonstrated that it is willing to face down international pressure to protect...
Again, the parallels between Huyghe’s project and Corbusier’s experience at Harvard are germane. The result of a good deal of friction between architect and institution, the Carpenter Center, along with several of Sert’s own projects such as the Science Center and Peabody Terrace, ruffled enough conservative feathers that the University has since become less willing to engage in high-profile commissions involving cutting-edge architecture. In Huyghe’s film, playing opposite to the cherubic features of and jointed arms of Corbusier and Huyghe’s marionette likenesses...