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...Later, Koijai Linsinjoy, 44, a village woman dressed in the traditional magenta red sash and black dress, stands in the shade of a local mulberry pressing factory. Does she like the Prime Minister? Oh yes. Does she think he will help make her rich? Oh yes. Does she believe what he said about selling mulberry paper over the Web? Oh yes. Has she ever seen the Internet? She shakes her head...
...convinced that I have managed to turn a deeper shade of pale. I now pause before putting on shorts, and I usually grab a light sweater—no matter the sweltering heat—to cover my white shoulders when I don a sleeveless dress. I thought it would be easy to come back, but everywhere I turn I am reminded of those beautifully bronzed Floridians that have come to characterize the state: surfers, sunbathers and Mandy Moore. I feel a closer connection with another group of people, a group that I, an avid Disney-goer since birth...
...album's best tracks is Always, a duet between Seger and Canadian troubadour Ron Sexsmith. Seger has a bright, brittle voice, like a leaf that's turned some colorful shade of autumn. Her vocals contrast nicely with Sexsmith's plaintive tenor. Always has some elements a listener might associate with folk or country--including gentle acoustic-guitar work--but the track, tastefully sweetened with synthesizers, never settles into any one genre. "I know what I want to see," sings Seger on the song. "And I know where I want to be." Seger may have a peripatetic past...
...with kawaii, Japanese firms chasing youthful yen hire high schoolers as salesgirls, stylists and marketers. That's a necessity in a business where there are no seasons, only tsunami-size fashion trends that breeze through in weeks, months or, like, whenever. And when it comes to knowing exactly which shade of beige Tokyo's trendsetters want to wear and how low-slung they want their jeans, those teen-targeted labels recruit heavily from among the karisuma tenin (charismatic salesgirls) of the Shibuya 109 building. "They started hiring us because we wore different, interesting clothes and the magazines were using...
...Then I saw the car. Its hulking frame, painted the most recent shade in SUV-chic, hovered on my right side for a moment before inching past me. Then, without warning, it drifted left, towards me, and for the first time in my life, my unfortunate and paranoid tendency to drive with one hand hovering over the car horn actually came in handy. I let loose with a nice, long warning. The wayward car drifted away from me, back into its lane. Then, just as suddenly, it eased over to its right, only to be greeted with a similar cacophony...