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...There are still a few things the U.S. can learn from Japan. One is its commitment to energy-efficient public transport. Anyone who sniffs at Obama's plan for high-speed railways should have joined me on the glide back to Tokyo. But the main lesson Japan can offer the U.S. today has nothing to do with rapid progress. It concerns the perils of inaction. (See pictures of Japan in the 1980s and today...
...teetered on the edge of recession, occasionally tumbling into one. With one exception (Junichiro Koizumi), the country has been captained by a series of leaders who seemed content to reluctantly repair the economy so that it doesn't outright sink, but not enough for it to return to the high-flying days of yesteryear. What I find most baffling about Japan is how a nation can be in such a protracted period of malaise and never seem to muster the will or ability to do very much about...
...then offered the coordinates of this star to Frebel, who departed for Chile to take a closer look with the Magellen-Clay Telescope using high-resolution spectroscopy. Though this kind of spectroscopy takes much longer, it provides more details about the “personality” of the star, Frebel said...
VanderMeulen has been leading the way, netting a team-high 20 goals thus...
...Norfolk Navy Base to explore the cramped sleeping quarters aboard a nuclear attack submarine and assess the impact of gays serving openly. Fifteen of 17 military personnel who testified at a hearing on the base that day strongly opposed lifting the ban. While opposition today isn't as high - and the public supports doing away with the ban - it remains a sensitive political issue, as Bill Clinton painfully discovered. He simply wanted to let gays serve by changing the regulation barring them from doing so. But Congress got so upset at that prospect that it passed the compromise...