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...chestnut-filled village just 30 min. from central Nagano, a ruddy-faced high school boy gets off his bike to walk a visitor to his destination. An old woman at a country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket of huge apples by her side. Nagano is a world of deep, ancestral sounds: the traditional melody of a potato seller audible downtown; the mournful strains of an enka ballad (often known as Japanese country-and-western) in a tiny noodle shop...
...Weather Channel: "Painted Faces" Sure, the 24-hr. channel could tout its forecasts. But this inspired campaign wants you to know that "if hell freezes over, you'll hear it here first." In a weather-themed bar, two rabid tube watchers breathlessly await the weekend outlook. The upshot is as clear as a blue sky: "Weather fans, you're not alone...
Expressing his support for United States-Puerto Rico Status Act (HR 856), Tito Roman, regional director of the Massachusetts Regional Office of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, spoke to an audience of about 15 at the John F. Kennedy School last night...
...passed, HR 856, which is currently before Congress, would authorize Puerto Rico to hold a self-determination plebiscite which will decide on its political status...
...HR 856 bill defines the current status of Puerto Rico as that of "an unincorporated territory subject to Congress' power under the Constitution's Territorial Clause." The island is also described as a free-associated state...