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Look back in anger France has always had its explorers and travelers, but unlike Portugal, Italy or Ireland it doesn't have a tradition of mass migration because it has been such a rich country for so long. What's striking about the new French exodus (and is causing a sometimes-agonized debate back home) is the description these new émigrés give of the France they are leaving behind: a country where it's difficult and sometimes miserable to be ambitious, where landing a stimulating job often depends on connections rather than talent, where bureaucracy is daunting...
...battle of Okinawa, which was about to fall to the U.S. That's the story Japanese student textbooks told too, until the government announced on March 30 that it had ordered publishers to delete those passages. Instead one textbook now reads that Okinawans were "driven to mass suicide," without mentioning the army's role. The change is the latest controversial tweak by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who also recently denied that women were forced into sexual slavery during...
...Today it was the ground rather than the sky that made the impact, as the field became simply unplayable. Both sets of diamond dwellers were slated to take the field at 3 p.m. yesterday, baseball at O’Donnell Field against Holy Cross and softball in Chestnut Hill, Mass., against Boston College. Neither school has announced a makeup date for the game, each will presumably be scheduled for later in the season. The teams will be back in action Saturday, as the women take on Princeton in N.J. and the men do the same at O’Donnell...
...Columbia following a 4-8 spring training showing in its annual Florida trip. The Crusaders come into today’s contest with a 2-14 overall record and are looking to avenge last year’s 3-2 extra-innings loss to the Crimson in Worcester, Mass...
...Harvard Medical School instructor Emily Oken, discovered that children whose mothers gained at least the recommended amount of weight during pregnancy were four times more likely to be overweight at age three, compared to those whose mothers gained less. The recommended weight gain for women with a normal body mass index (BMI) is 25 to 35 pounds. This number varies depending on the BMI of the expecting mother. The study is published in the April issue of the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Oken and her research team monitored 1,044 pregnant women in the Boston area and compiled...