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What Tang has turned away from, however, other undergraduates have willfully pursued. With books about young Harvard-bound scholars flying off the shelves in China, South Korea, and Japan, a new brand of Ivy envy has surfaced in the orient—taking on unique forms within the three different nations...
...million in 2006. The company has opened 20 new boutiques in three years, for a total of 60 shops by the end of the year, including stores relocated on prime luxury-shopping streets in Paris, London and New York City and new ones opening in Asia, where Japan is Bonpoint's top priority...
...purchase. Sometimes, there's a toddler asleep atop the cart, his or her head pillowed perhaps on a copy of Angkor - Cambodia's Wondrous Khmer Temples. Upward of a million visitors a year - backpackers, pensioners, Tomb Raider aficionados, newly flush Eastern Europeans and large groups of Buddhists from Japan and Korea - come to gawp at Angkor Wat. Looming, enduring and vast, it is just one of a host of exquisite temples in the area. But by the end of the day, both culture vultures and common-or-garden tourists are more than ready for less cerebral diversion. And in Siem...
...this plan seems, well, too lax, then take heart in knowing we're still beating the rest of the world. If they gave Olympic medals for shoving kids out the door the fastest, we'd still be on the podium. In countries like Japan and Italy and Spain, about 70% of children aged 25 to 34 still live at home. Here it's only 11%. Cue the national anthem...
...unappreciated heroes around the world are translators and interpreters without whom our globalized world would be tongue-tied. Thanks to their skill and talent, communication, understanding, and appreciation take place on a daily basis. Where would we be without their fluency? They are our quiet heroes. Michael Driver Ichihara, Japan...