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What can one boy or girl do to preserve the world's rain forests? Ask Jiro Nakayama. He's the twelve-year-old leader of a band of schoolchildren in Nagano, Japan, who have already saved 40 acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate...
...member Lower House and 10% of the 252-member Upper House are sons, sons-in-law or legally adopted successors of Diet members. Even more politicians are linked by marital and familial ties. Six of the 20 Cabinet ministers, including Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama, are sons of former Diet members. Former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and L.D.P. kingmaker Shin Kanemaru are related through the marriage of their children. Former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a son of a parliamentarian, is married to the daughter of former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. In the upcoming elections, the sons...
Emilie Y. Nakayama '93, a resident ofStoughton, said that when she first noticed amouse in her room, she was not frightened...
...didn't really bother me that much exceptthat it was eating our food," Nakayama said...
...packed with computer chips and high-tech features, but each also sports a new, high-tech look, one that owes more to the smooth curves of the video camcorder than to the basic rectangular design that has dominated 35-mm cameras since the 1924 Leica Model "A." Says Yasuhiko Nakayama, the veteran video-camera designer who created the Chinon Genesis: "We wanted a unique design concept to match the new type of camera...