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...BROADBAND 22? Internet-connection price per megabit per second in Japan, the lowest in the developed world, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development $81.13 Price per megabit per second in Turkey, the highest in the developed world...
...Thottam's report on the Dangers of Chinese Imports, from toys to seafood, takes me back to the 1940s, when Japan had a struggling economy. "Made in Japan" was a byword for inferior products. If economists' predictions prove correct and China progresses similarly, both economically and politically, the world will be a safer place, and the U.S. will be fighting for economic survival. Wayne E. Smith, Sicklerville, New Jersey...
...dollars in reserves-an amount greater than the gross national product of any country except the U.S. China has by far the largest horde, with over $1.3 trillion in the till and almost one-quarter of the world's total. But the rest of Asia is far from poor: Japan holds more than $900 billion, Taiwan and South Korea together own over $500 billion and India's reserves crossed $200 billion this year, up more than 30% from a year ago. About two-thirds of these reserves are denominated in dollars and about 60% of those are in U.S. government...
...unknowns that worry regulators and experts. "Yesterday's quake showed that assumptions and suppositions that safety standards are based on are completely false," says Baku Nishio, a co-director at Citizen's Nuclear Information Center. "Japan is simply too quake-bound to operate nuclear plants." There's also uncertainty about where the next quake will strike. The Kashiwazaki facility underwent a tectonic survey last year to reevaluate the site's quake resistency and update it in accordance with new government guidelines. That survey concluded there were no active faults in the vicinity...
...because Japan depends heavily upon nuclear power for electricity, it's unlikely much can or will be changed. "Building a reasonably quake-resistant plant is way too costly to be truly realistic," says Hiroyuki Nagasawa, a management-systems professor at Osaka Prefecture University. "Nothing short of reevaluating our energy policy will change the current situation, but we have much bigger political powers working to keep the plants running." The country has been spared a quake-related nuclear calamity so far. Citizens can only hope their luck holds...