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...that there is no butter in Japan. It's just expensive because of the tariffs imposed on imports. At a popular international supermarket in Tokyo, Nissin, consumers are complaining because they no longer have access to butter that costs 500 yen ($5) for 250 grams, produced in Hokkaido, the center of Japan's milk industry. Instead, they are confronted with an abundance of French butter, costing upwards of 2,000 yen ($20) for 200 grams. "Even if we order 100 or 200 packages of domestic butter," says Nissin's dairy buyer Katsuhiro Maruyama, "only about six or so actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Butter Meltdown | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

Hauser also said that there are other benefits—not relating to mothers—that come from being a popular writer...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

While Hauser acknowledged that such sacrifices are unfortunate, he said that the benefit to the public from popular science books outweighs any potential costs to the scientific community...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...addition to being caught at the center of the tug of war between writing books and producing primary research, popular scientists are constantly debating exactly how to present the diversity of their fields to the public...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

Such disdain for the democratic process raises a question: why bother with elections at all? Other African tyrannies have dispensed with the awkward trial of popular votes altogether, and ruled as unapologetic autocracies. So why the need for a veneer of respectability, however thin, in Zimbabwe? The answer lies in the psychology of Mugabe and his fellow liberation leaders, many of whom came from a background of elite academia. Mugabe himself has seven degrees, most of them earned during the 11 years he spent in prison when the country was called Rhodesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe's Strategy for Victory | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

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