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...Japanese now live in Shanghai alone. The flood the other way is even more impressive: at half a million strong, Chinese legal immigrants now make up the largest group of recently arrived foreigners in Japan - and, no, they're not just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than 80,000 Chinese students are studying at Japanese universities, two-thirds of Japan's total foreign college-student population. Upon graduation, they are entering the Japanese workforce, crowding lucrative fields such as IT and biotech. Sheer numbers work in China's favor; each year Japan graduates...
Graveyard-Shift Hazards...
RISKY HOURS Believe it or not, the night shift could become less appealing than it already is. The International Agency for Research on Cancer has named the so-called graveyard shift--worked in part by nearly 20% of the laboring population in Europe and North America--as a probable carcinogen, joining other likely cancer causes such as anabolic steroids and ultraviolet radiation...
Brown is straining to shift the collective mood back in his favor, promising better cancer care for Britons and even attempting to turn around his party-funding embarrassment by proposing a fresh look at the rules that govern it. His own supporters are gloomy, recalling another Prime Minister who inherited the remains of an electoral term from his predecessor. "The danger for Brown is that this will start to be like [John] Major's government, buffeted by things happening to it, in permanent reactive mode, trying to micromanage each response to each incident, occasionally relaunching, and never really able...
...John W. Curtis, one of the report’s authors, said that universities like Harvard have a lot of teaching done by graduate students. “It’s becoming much more common for graduate students to become the sole instructor and the more of a shift in that direction, the more that grad students are being treated as part-time faculty,” said Curtis, who is the AAUP’s director of research and public policy. While this pattern is believed to be particularly prevalent at research universities, like Harvard, Curtis said that...