Word: japanism
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...tithing to the Democratic Party, which as everyone knows is the political arm of the satanic conspiracy. He might also have mentioned a suspicious bit of numerology: the worldwide box-office gross of The Da Vinci Code, if you subtract what the movie earned in the heathen countries of Japan and China, came to almost exactly... $666 million...
...minutes of leisure than women. Norwegians spend just over a quarter of their time on leisure, the highest among OECD countries, while Mexicans spend just 16%, the lowest. So what are we doing with our leisure time? Watching TV absorbs nearly half of all leisure time in Mexico and Japan and falls to a low of 25% in New Zealand. Turkey is the most sociable nation, spending 35% of leisure time entertaining friends, more than triple the OECD average...
...only just behind (32%), second only to Denmark (34%). With around one in ten male teenagers not in education, employment or training, the United Kingdom has the second highest rate in the OECD, after Italy. The rate for females between 15 and 19 is lower only than in Italy, Japan, New Zealand and Spain...
...Overall Happiness: "Life satisfaction rose or remained constant in 23 countries and only declined in Portugal, Hungary, the United States, Canada and Japan. The rise in life satisfaction in Turkey is particularly striking. ... While Mexico shows the lowest income among OECD countries, at $10,000 per capita, Mexicans report being almost as satsified with life as OECD's highest income country Luxembourg, at $55,000. ... Korea now has the highest suicide rate among OECD countries (around 22 deaths per 100,000 individuals). Ireland shows a marked regular increase of suicide rates with a peak in 2000, followed by a small...
...Lankan government has been more welcoming of delegations from sympathetic countries, such as India, South Asia's regional superpower, and Japan, Sri Lanka's largest donor country. Neither has tried to exert similar public pressure. The Indian foreign secretary, Shivshankar Menon, met with Rajapaksa on April 24; three days later the Army announced that "combat operations have reached their conclusion," a declaration that was quickly clarified - it meant the Army would cease only heavy bombardment. On April 30, the Times of London reported that the U.S. and Britain were trying to use Sri Lanka's application for a $1.9 billion...