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Japan's Wasted Asset Thank you so much for your article on the lack of effort being made to utilize the intelligence and abilities of Japanese women [Oct. 10]. I am a Canadian woman teaching English in Japan, and I was shocked by how patriarchal Japanese society is. Your story quoted a women's rights activist as saying, "Women must work twice as hard as men to advance their careers because of prejudices within Japanese companies ... And then they have to go home and work three times as hard there." Japanese women work until their backs are literally bent...
SWOOPES IS OUT BUT NOT DOWN When Houston Comets forward SHERYL SWOOPES became the most prominent team-sport athlete to declare her homosexuality, the strongest reaction was the lack of one. "I feel like I've been living a lie," the WNBA's three-time most valuable player and mom of son Jordan, 8, said. "I'm finally O.K. with the idea of who I love." Swoopes, who has been dating a former coach for seven years, didn't lose her Nike sneaker deal or her role as the sweetheart of the league, which has a strong lesbian fan base...
...Percentage pledged of $550 million in aid requested by the U.N., which last week said lack of funds might force it to halt airdrops to survivors...
...erudition and scope, Illicit has one vexing flaw: its lack of substantial original research. Na?m is an armchair tour guide, relying mostly on well-worn news stories and official reports. For a book on the underground trade in sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, Illicit is disappointingly dry. The climax is not a memorable glimpse inside a smuggling ring, but a raft of policy suggestions such as better coordination among government agencies and improved international cooperation?hardly page-turning stuff. Still, Na?m succeeds in presenting a clear account of how illicit commerce works and what its consequences are. In doing...
...temblor took about 55,000 lives and has left as many as 3 million people homeless. Relief efforts have been severely hampered by the remoteness of many places hit by the quake, and by the lack of money for aid and assistance. The U.N. said last week that, with winter blizzards just weeks away, it urgently needed $550 million to avert a second wave of deaths from cold, yet had only received one-fifth of that...