Word: shrunk
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...Japanese worried about their country's direction, the depressed city of Yubari on the northern island of Hokkaido provides an ominous worst-case scenario. Once a thriving coal-mining town of 130,000, Yubari has shrunk to 13,000 people, with 40% of them 65 years old or over. In the 1980s and '90s town officials tried to stanch the economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions to remake the city as a tourist destination, only to fail miserably-as Yubari's shuttered amusement park, melon museum and robot museum testify. After racking up over $500 million in debt-roughly...
...undirected play allows children to learn how to work in groups, to share, to negotiate, to resolve conflicts ..." But most schools--at least 70%--haven't cut recess. And according to the University of Maryland's Sandra Hofferth, who has studied children's time use, while noncomputer playtime has shrunk, kids now spend more hours studying, reading and participating in youth groups, art and other hobbies. Kids also take more time to shop and groom but not to watch TV: Hofferth and her colleagues have found that 9-to-12-year-olds were watching less than 15 hours a week...
...Manufacturers Association, the chancellor of the California State University system, executives from Viacom Inc. and Lucent Technologies, and other government and education leaders. Its call-to-action report, entitled Tough Choices or Tough Times, cites studies showing that the U.S. share of the world's college-educated workers has shrunk from 30% to 15% in recent decades and that, even after all the outsourcing of the past decade, some 20% of U.S. jobs remain vulnerable to automation or offshoring to educated workers overseas...
...Estimated height of Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain 3.7 m Estimated distance Everest has shrunk since 1975, according to Chinese geologists who said last week that the Himalayas have "peaked" and will perhaps grow smaller due to the effects of gravity on Asia's continental crust...
...other ideas, one devised by Rothschild and the other by Edwy Plenel, a former Le Monde editor who hopes to become Libé's editor in chief. Turning Libé around won't be easy. Losses are about €1 million a month, advertising has dwindled and readership has shrunk. That Libé is hard up isn't exactly news. For years it has been kept afloat partly by loans from sympathizers whose politics outweighed their business sense. "It was not a normal business," says Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum, who previously worked...