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...What do you think of Japan?" is also how ritual exchanges between less celebrated Westerners and Japanese taxi drivers begin. The required answer is as bound by ritual as the question. Certain stock phrases are to be avoided. Admiration of samurai, kimono, Mount Fuji or geisha is, on the whole, not well received. For, like those wrong-headed textbooks, this might suggest that modern, international, metropolitan Japan is not sufficiently appreciated...
...Graham maintains that existing protections would protect abortion providers and women seeking abortions from prosecution. Pro-choice activists don?t find his assurances convincing and promise to mount a full-fledged attack on the bill. They see this legislation as a critical test of a new administration, a new House and a new Senate, and that passage would provide a stark indication that abortion rights are in serious trouble...
...thanks to new research out of Harvard University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, I may have an excuse for what I euphemistically refer to as my "little sugar problem." In two separate studies, scientists found a gene in mice they believe is responsible for craving sweetness - and it may also exist in humans. If these findings, detailed in the May issue of Nature Genetics, hold true for people, they could help explain why some of us are riveted by a box of saltwater taffy while others can simply turn away...
Ollie Barge has an American name, but not much else. She never knew her parents, having been raised by a foster mother. When her college was flooded by mud slides from the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, the school relocated and Barge couldn't afford the commute. She tried getting work at the garment factories now prospering on the former base. But each time she carefully combed back her curly hair and went for an interview, the managers turned her away. Only a handful of mixed-race Filipinos have landed jobs at Clark Special Economic Zone, where thousands...
Here's one prescription: Up your dosage of drug stocks. No matter how bad the economy gets, consumers aren't likely to cut spending on drugs and medical care. In fact, as debts rise and losses mount, they may be racing to buy more Prozac (Eli Lilly). These stocks aren't immune to the broader market's misfortune. The American Stock Exchange Pharmaceutical Index has fallen 12.8% since Jan. 2, while Standard & Poor's 500 is down 8.4%. But drug stocks offer something that has been scarce in this environment--profit growth...