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...fallen from 90% to under 70%, largely due to the country's continuing widespread poverty. Fujimori has also suffered some personal embarrassments: his estranged wife Susana Higuchi embarked on a brief hunger strike last January, protesting her disqualification as a congressional candidate. Fujimori's Vice Minister of the Interior was rumored to have connections to drug traffickers after the minister's name turned up in an address book seized during a cocaine raid. ``Fujimori is a politician in the middle of a campaign,'' says Carol Graham, a visiting fellow at the World Bank. ``Nationalism is a nerve that politicians...
Occasionally the low-budget film achieves moments which capture the antsy, interior world of close male friends in the tradition of "American Graffiti" or "Dinner." Too often, however, static camera work, awkward acting and the deliberate plod of the plot hinder potentially sharp interactions...
With this kind of wiring, Ressler says, it was easier to incorporate Continental's "personalizing" features. With a turn of the ignition key, 24 different features-from seat and steering-wheel positions to interior temperature to choice of CDs-automatically adjust themselves to a motorist's preferences. The driver can even adjust ride suspension (firm, normal, plush) and steering effort (low, normal, high...
...traditional Japanese house, Scawthorn says, the first floor lacks interior walls that could help support the weight of the second floor, as they would for a Western home; in Japan rooms are frequently separated by flimsy, sliding shoji screens. Scawthorn's recommendation: place a few steel braces along the exterior walls, and reinforce one or two interior walls so they can help carry the weight of the second story. ``Last of all,'' he says, ``I would take those heavy tiles off the roof and replace them with the lighter-weight plastic ones available in Japan now.'' All told, the work...
Many older commercial buildings in central Kobe, mostly constructed with reinforced concrete, suffered pancake collapses. In such cases the prescription is also to add stronger interior reinforcing, often by replacing a few existing room dividers with permanent, weight-bearing walls. Retrofitting buildings to survive another Big One is still rare in Japan, but in the wake of the Kobe tragedy it may catch on. By Edward W. Desmond/Tokyo