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...college student—I also realized I had never come across such leisurely living. Even the garbage men only grudgingly made their way onto the street at eleven, and everyone seemed to content themselves with shopping at the specialty markets, smoking, savoring gelato, and infesting the smart-car traffic with their designer mopeds...
...heads prevailed. The city desperately needed money, and Japan's occupation government, after repeated pleas from Hiroshima, finally agreed to permit special national subsidies to badly damaged cities as long as they had a reasonable reconstruction plan. Hiroshima International University planning professor Norioki Ishimaru says parliamentarians from Hiroshima were smart enough to know that their request could not come "with an accusing tone," lest they be turned down by General Douglas MacArthur's occupation headquarters in Tokyo...
...startled him, since the phone agents were all college graduates who lack opportunities to demonstrate their competencies. We Filipinos have an innate ability to mimic foreign accents, which might be because most of us are interested in knowing other languages besides our own. Most Filipino college graduates are intelligent, smart and hardworking, but they need a jump-start for their careers. Call centers may not be the best way for everyone, but it is an honest beginning. I thank Green for investing in our country despite its political and economic troubles. Glynn Marie Vicoy Cebu City, the Philippines...
...lighters. Long before Dunhill became associated with that guilty pleasure, it encouraged another: the love affair with the car. The company began life 112 years ago in London as a purveyor of automobile accessories and the name Dunhill became synonymous with the kind of high-end driving instruments the smart set bought. Company founder Alfred Dunhill?who famously declared that he sold "everything but the motor"?retailed nonessentials for the car lover, from high-tech driving goggles and dashboard clocks to driving gloves, which he introduced to the world long before the brand began selling menswear...
...plain of gray ash that lies at the foot of rumbling Mt. Yasur, other John Frum believers see things differently. Here, every Friday around 8 a.m., the village of Lamakara falls still as three men disappear into a hut, where they change from faded T shirts and trousers into smart tan military uniforms. They then solemnly raise the flags of the U.S., France and Australian Aborigines, with whom they feel solidarity over land rights. When chief Isaac Wan appears, other men regard him with grave respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet. The gray-bearded Wan says...