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...emphasis on patriotism. Although a council he convened last month released more detailed recommendations, including increasing total class time, critics aren't impressed. Abe "doesn't address the real problems that Japan's education system faces," says the SDP's Fukushima, who notes that Japan still spends considerably less per student on public schooling than the O.E.C.D. average-forcing parents to plug the gap by sending their kids to private schools if they can afford...
...urged Japanese women to have more children (the current fertility rate is 1.29 children per woman), appealing to traditional family values while also promising to boost child-care support. But his administration has still managed to appear insensitive and out of touch on the issue. In a Jan. 27 speech exhorting them to have more children, Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa referred to Japanese women as "baby-making machines." The minister quickly apologized, but Abe's critics seized on the incident-and on Abe's refusal to fire Yanagisawa-as evidence that the administration can't handle the demographic issue...
...said Chu, a seven-year member of the national team program and veteran of two Olympics and three World Championships. After missing last season to participate in the Winter Games, Chu is enjoying a prolific senior campaign, ranking as the national leader in assists and points per game and emerging as one of the front-runners for the 10th anniversary Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top player in women’s college hockey. “I think returning from the Olympics there’s always going to be this notion of how is the transition going...
...flag, another the flag of the state of Massachusetts, with an individual with a rifle on either side. The cadets presented arms, and the anthem played. Instead of turning to face the American flag on the back wall of Lavietes for the playing of the Star-Spangled Banner, as per usual, Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith directed her team toward the color guard at halfcourt.The four students are members of Harvard ROTC, an organization of only a dozen or so. Eric McKinney, the captain in charge of the Harvard cadets, reached out to the athletic department to facilitate...
...large influx of refugees returning from camps in Pakistan and from Iran, where per capita heroin use is the highest in the world, saw addiction rates skyrocket in the first few years after the fall of the Taliban. But even as the number of returnees dwindles, addiction rates continue to rise. The UNODC survey estimates that nearly 4% of Afghan adults use some kind of drug. "This goes beyond returnees," says Bayer. "The results have gone beyond expectations; no one expected use to be so high." Bayer says she has visited villages in the north of Afghanistan where the entire...