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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL AGAIN IN 1998. THAT IN effect was the Rx prescribed for detractors by pharmacologist Hiroshi Nakajima as he vowed to strive for "harmony" during a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization. His task appears daunting. In an atmosphere of distinct bureaucratic disharmony, Nakajima, 64, emerged victorious from an 18-13 vote of the executive board of WHO, an arm of the U.N., thanks largely to Third World support -- and despite a determined campaign waged against him by the U.S. and the European Community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No.2 For Dr. WHO | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...none of this can be realized unless men ease the load on women by learning how to take care of themselves. "In Japan the women's issue is really a men's issue," says Sachiko Nakajima, a deputy director at the National Personnel Authority, which oversees public employees. Kanagawa prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, shares her view. A 1988 prefectural-office newsletter published a test to gauge male self-reliance, asking, Do you know where your suits, neckties, socks and underwear are kept? Have you ever used a washing machine? Can you name more than three friends of your children? Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Equality? | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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