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Yeoman service of a different sort came from bureau driver Kazuo Tsubaki, a % former octopus salesman at the vast Tokyo fish market. Recalls Makihara: "At my request, Tsubaki-san chatted up several fishmongers to find out how the imperial household collects 2,700 fresh sea bream for its six wedding banquets." Answer: it asks fishing ports nationwide to set aside their entire catch of foot-long bream...
...prince was able to persuade Owada that as his wife she would be able to use her diplomatic skills in a very effective way. If so, he will have to help make it happen. A truly enigmatic institution, the imperial household is secretive and, in general, tradition bound. Beyond its role in guarding the practice of religious rituals, nothing much is known about it. By comparison, European royal houses are open books...
...cuts foreign aid $4.7 billion. Kasich cuts it $13.6 billion. Clinton freezes subsidies to the arts. Kasich slices them in half. He also kills all mass-transit operating subsidies and other subsidies to railroads and airports. By eliminating all Clinton's tax increases, he gives the typical median-income household an annual break of $173 and the typical $200,000-plus household a break...
...values -- the drink Mom pours for you when she serves her apple pie. No wonder, then, that the ground seemed to tremble a bit in the nation's capital last week when the biotechnology industry faced off with consumer advocates over a matter of concern to every U.S. household: Do new high-tech production methods threaten the safety of American milk...
...latter extreme, there was the occasional tale of a real-life partnership, like that of Sharon and Paul Tisher. She's a lawyer and works four days a week; he's a psychiatrist and works three. They have no nanny, and they each assume the child-care and household duties on the days they are at home. "In the beginning, when I first found myself with a six-month-old baby, it was frightening," Paul says. But he also argues that his apprenticeship was possible only because his wife was willing to relinquish her power in the . home...