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...personal-trivia game. Everyone in attendance left with some very valuable and often nautical-themed life lessons, not the least of which were that the Welsh word for Wales is “cymru” and male blue whales have an average penis length of 2m. Rampant cheating on the part of all parties involved prevented a clear determination of the game’s winners...
...chief, the stare seems to say, because I'm everywhere. But Moi, 78, is constitutionally obliged to step down at the upcoming presidential and parliamentary election on Dec. 27, and his country is more than ready for the change. In the past few years of economic decline and rampant corruption - and especially in the run-up to the election - Kenyans have begun to poke fun at the old man in ways that used to be unthinkable. "What you are seeing is the reaction of people who are tired," says Godfrey "Gado" Mwampembwa, a popular cartoonist who began lampooning the President...
...Goose tales. In this version, Red Riding Hood climbs into bed with the wolf—and is promptly devoured. Orenstein deftly shows us that the tale was intended as a morality fable for the decadent aristocracy under Louis XIV. In a society that both prized virginity and tolerated rampant sexual indiscretions, the tale cautioned ladies to “never trust a stranger-friend…wolves may lurk in every guise...
Kamchatka's economy has collapsed in the wake of perestroika, as subsidies from the central government have dried up. Corruption is rampant, with poachers depleting the region's vast fisheries. Nature preserves are under threat from mining and energy projects. Electricity is frequently shut down, even during the brutal winters. As one park ranger noted while guiding us through the thermal springs of the peninsula's Valley of Geysers, "This is the only place in Kamchatka where they can't cut off your hot water...
...Unfortunately, retailing is far from Japan's only stunted sector, and rampant overemployment?as in that parking garage outside of Tokyo?is only the beginning of the problem. Hobbled by the government policies designed to help them, most domestic industries are basket cases. Often prevented from consolidating and insulated from competition, most businesses are too small to achieve economies of scale, are poorly managed, and use antiquated equipment and business models?all of which hurt productivity and increase prices. Take food processing: Without state-of-the-art market research and sales-tracking capabilities, food companies churn out endless variations...