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...Tokyo A Japan Without Sushi? Japanese fishermen staged their largest ever one-day strike on July 15, involving some 200,000 boats, as thousands of seamen massed in Tokyo to demand curbs on soaring fuel costs. The price of heavy fuel used for fishing boats has tripled since 2003, threatening to cripple an industry already hobbled by depleted fish populations. Japan is the world's second largest consumer of seafood...
...rich, but a sizable minority of its children live in squalor, their prospects occluded by their bad start in life. Social mobility is low compared with other advanced nations - 31% of children in inner London and 22% nationally are growing up in poverty, which will only increase with spiraling fuel and food costs and a stuttering job market. More than 9% of 16-to-18-year-olds are not currently enrolled in any form of education, employment or job training...
...would seize bad parts from almost every kind of aircraft: helicopter blades, brake components, engines, engine starters, fuel bladders, generators, bearings, speed drives, avionics, cockpit warning lights, landing gears, wheels, combustion liners, parts of helicopter tail rotors, windshields and entire wing and tail assemblies. We would confiscate parts made in basements, garages and weld shops, or from major U.S. manufacturers and from Germany, France, England, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, China, the Philippines, Taiwan or unknown countries. They even showed up on the President's helicopters and in the oxygen and fire-extinguishing systems of Air Force...
...blame. Most Afghans waver between believing the ISAF is working against the country's interest and believing that there are just not enough coalition troops to get the job done. And most Afghans have a hard time believing that the ISAF can't control rising prices for food and fuel. They've seen or heard of laser-guided missiles falling from American warplanes with mythical precision, taking out Taliban caches while schoolrooms or hospitals immediately adjacent stood unscathed. And so, as popular Afghan logic goes, the only conceivable reason the ISAF hasn't swept the Taliban from the country...
...still the most problematic, especially for the more benign, low-profit trade in illegal gasoline. At Al-Faw's small army base, nearly 30 butane gas canisters sit in the back of a truck, which the soldiers say was confiscated that morning. "They filled [the canisters] with diesel fuel for cars and they were taking it to fishermen to sell on the black market," says Al-Faw military commander Colonel Kareem Talaa, as one of his officers pierced the top of a canister with a knife and then tipped it to let a translucent liquid drip...