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...like it in the pedestrian-choked streets of Tokyo, but Japan is about to get a lot less crowded. Thanks to a fertility rate that's dropped to 1.25 children per woman-well below the 2.1 needed to keep a population stable-the number of Japanese is set to peak next year and then fall rapidly to 64 million, or half the current population, by 2100. It's not just about elbow room: fewer babies mean fewer young, productive workers to keep Japan's economy afloat, while the proportional increase in the elderly population will severely strain social services...
...smuggle liquid explosives aboard planes flying from London to the U.S., the air travel system is still trying to adapt. Some of the most draconian restrictions have been eased, but there's still a lot of confusion over what the rules are. With the end-of-summer travel peak approaching, TIME.com sorts through the latest rules on what you can and can't bring onboard your flight...
Hundreds of canceled flights. Huge lines at airports. Ferocious new baggage restrictions. Long delays. Traveling by air during the peak August holiday season is always an ordeal, but this year, it's far more strenuous than usual. Almost a week after the foiling of an alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes flying across the Atlantic, international air traffic remains snarled, especially at British airports, including Heathrow, the world's busiest international hub. Thousands of passengers - and their bags - have been stranded there, and the airlines and the company that runs Heathrow are now engaged in a nasty dispute over...
...slow course of the investigation has muted some of the fury that reached a peak last May when Congressman John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania with longtime ties to the military who has turned against the Iraq War, claimed that the Marines in Haditha had "killed in cold blood." Murtha too is facing a civil lawsuit for defamation from SSgt Wuterich, but he has not backed off his remarks...
...fighters into the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. "They don't have the capacity to recruit," says Walter Ochora, Uganda's Resident District Commissioner in Gulu, the epicenter of the conflict. "They're surrendering on a daily basis." Child abductions and other attacks are way down from their peak in 2002. Farmers in Uganda's army-defended camps tentatively return to cultivate their land by day. And the north's main town of Gulu is once again bustling with commerce and nightlife...