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...used to deliver progress only contribute sclerosis. Critics roundly blamed bureaucratic ineptitude for the sluggish rescue response to last year's Kobe earthquake, which took more than 6,300 lives in the region. The same complaints were repeated last summer, when a food-poisoning epidemic in Sakai City, near Osaka, spread to affect nearly 5,800 people throughout the country. "If the politicians stick to the status quo, then we will lose our position in the world market," says Isamu Miyazaki, a senior adviser at the Daiwa Institute of Research. Competition from China and other fast-growing economies in Asia...
...scared out of my mind. All I knew really was that I would be spending the next 10 weeks in Osaka, Japan, working for a large company called Osaka Gas, and living in the company dorm. About the only other piece of information I had was that I was to be met at the airport by a Mr. Yamamoto...
...situation and hoping the daintily-clad attendants in pink uniforms would come to my rescue. The two of them looked panicked as I approached. "Is this where people usually meet?" I mumbled in Japanese. They seemed to understand and nodded yes. I took my chances and decided to ask Osaka Gas, hoping for the faintest sign of recognition. Perhaps he had left a note for me. But their confused looks and empty nods revealed they had no idea what I was talking about. I came to the conclusion that I was just making them nervous, and holding back the river...
...decided to add some fat and sugar to yogurt, freeze it, and, voila. Apparently, after the failure of Coca Cola Light, the marketing gurus were not going to make another blunder by introducing America's favorite sugar-free, fat-free dessert. (I later learned that TCBY allegedly exists in Osaka, but the store was closed when I attempted to visit it at 9:00 last Sunday night...
Three Harvard seniors--captain linebacker Justin Frantz, quarterback Vin Ferrara, and punter Tim Griffin--will be a part of a squad of 43 Ivy League seniors who will face off with a team made up of Japan's college and university all-stars on January 7 in Osaka's Hankyo Nishinomiya Stadium...