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...malaise, Japan needs to find the right mix of policies that enable younger workers and small businesses to become more productive, and that ensure consumers can consume. Those policies are not in place today. The country is a de facto gerontocracy that has failed to adapt to today's economic and demographic realities. Japan must redefine its goals and, at a deeper level, rewrite its social contract so that youth are better served...
...primary forms of welfare, while workers were supposed to plug any gaps in the social safety net themselves with prodigious savings. Strategic industries were propped up to protect jobs. This system worked fine when earnings were plentiful during the postwar boom. But today the policies sap the strength of small- and medium-sized businesses, a major source of new jobs. At the same time, younger Japanese are crowded out of the workforce by graying incumbents in cradle-to-grave employment. (Read "Japan, After The Bubble...
...behavior of bees thanks to a $10 million, five-year National Science Foundation Expeditions in Computing Grant. The collaborators, including faculty at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a number of affiliate institutions, hope the bee models will lead to advances in small scale robotics, power sources and sensors, and biologically-inspired computer programming. The relatively new grant was developed last year by the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and is awarded to three institutions annually. It funds research rooted in basic science that is of “high risk...
...book within the month, and many mosques have taken to splitting it into 30 even portions recited in daily sermons. The fast lasts until sundown - or until it's too dark to "distinguish a white thread from a black thread," according to the Koran - and is broken with a small meal called an iftar which is followed by the Magrib prayer before the fasters join their families and invite the poor for a larger celebratory meal...
...Thursday, as a public book of condolence for Kennedy was opened at the U.S. Consulate in Belfast, a commemoration was held in the small town of Warrenpoint to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the bloodiest days in the Troubles, when 18 British soldiers were killed by a bomb planted by the IRA outside the town. As Northern Irish politicians travel to Kennedy's funeral in Arlington, Va., this weekend, perhaps the most fitting tribute to him, and to all of those who worked on the Northern Ireland peace process, is that events like the bombing in Warrenpoint...