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...global marketplace. One week later, it's becoming clear the country may be special for another reason. While much of the rest of the planet frets about a coming rise in inflation - a consequence of economic recovery, massive stimulus spending and a weakening dollar - Japan faces the opposite problem: a potentially devastating bout of deflation...
...able to relate can help to illuminate the problem,” Gregg said...
...Slutcracker’] was fantastic and what they did that was so brilliant was put together all these troops... [but] the problem with Somerville Theater is that that’s not a home,” says Oberon producer Randy Weiner. “And what we’re try to give them a home...
...means of literally shaping the brain and its pathways. Dr. Stuart Brown, a psychiatrist and the founder of the National Institute for Play - who has a treehouse above his office - recalls in a recent book how managers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noticed the younger engineers lacked problem-solving skills, though they had top grades and test scores. Realizing the older engineers had more play experience as kids - they'd taken apart clocks, built stereos, made models - JPL eventually incorporated questions about job applicants' play backgrounds into interviews. "If you look at what produces learning and memory...
...Afghans who braved Taliban threats to vote and promised to strengthen democracy. By the end of his five-year term, Afghan security forces would be "capable of taking the lead in ensuring security and stability across the country," he said. Corruption and bribery, he announced, "constitute a very dangerous problem," one that he would combat through legal reform and the strengthening of anticorruption institutions in government...