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...heard anyone quite like Petey (Howard Stern was an early fan). It wasn't so much that he talked dirty (though he sometimes did), but that he talked autobiographically - about his shady past, about his bad habits (boozing, mainly), and about his mildly transgressive present. Mostly he talked about life as he (and his listeners) struggled with it. He was hip, cool, angry, funny and, in the radio of his day, unique...
...construction, for example, we are going to have at least a page of questions, to be conservative,” Mattison said. “Then we will need time for Harvard to present their response, and us to review the response. The question is, will Harvard respond quickly to the dialogue? That is the only way we will have the opportunity to encourage Harvard to make some changes that will benefit the community...
...election to defend his reform plans, voters seem resigned to the return of Japanese politics as usual. Back at the Minato welfare office, 71-year-old Asako Hamada sees little reason for hope. "I don't know anything about politics, but I know things are not well at the present moment," she says. "That neither the LDP nor the opposition parties have been able to offer any resolutions that give peace of mind to the Japanese is quite worrying." Candidates from both parties running on July 29 should be worried...
...This technology has potential applications for online learning. To use a present-day computer, you have to learn how to use a keyboard and mouse, which may be hard for those who have little or no experience typing. But with touch screens, people will be able to send handwritten messages to children and receive hand-painted pictures in reply. Masatoshi Nishikawa, Tokyo...
...Internet, as did the two men who failed to detonate a bomb on a passenger train in Germany last year. So, even as the threat of a major professional attack emanating from al-Qaeda central may be on the rise, the danger from local amateurs acting autonomously remains ever-present. The limits on their technical expertise has helped Europe dodge a good few bloodbaths. But if al-Qaeda managed to get one of its Iraq-based bomb makers into Britain to service local cells such as the one that conducted the London and Glasgow attacks, the local-amateur circuit would...