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...step of taking his two sons to some of the social functions that cram a politician's diary "so I could be with them." If successful economists and politicians can make these efforts, so can other men. Masahiro Endo, a 33-year-old father of two and a gas-station owner in Japan's Niigata prefecture, runs two websites for fathers, publishing articles with titles like "Let's Master the Three Categories of Housework." But not so long ago, he says, he was a living anachronism-the kind of father who "couldn't cook or do any kind of housework...
...found was being put onto a series of three-month contracts rather than a permanent one. Finding work in London, Dublin, Montreal and other foreign cities, by contrast, seems much easier. Vladimir Cordier, an unemployed French graduate, got a job within five days of arriving at London's Waterloo Station on a one-way Eurostar ticket, and was so elated that he even wrote a book about his experience in 2005. Its title: Finally...
...would be nice, the police superintendent says, to take down the high, barbed-wire-topped walls that ring Antrim Road police station. Plenty else has changed already. The petrol bombs and bullets that the walls used to hold back have stopped flying. Guards at the gate no longer keep their guns conspicuously unholstered. In fact, so much has changed in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that when a young Roman Catholic like Rory Fitzpatrick--who just 15 years ago could have viewed the force as his natural enemy--explains why he joined in 2004, his answers are unremarkable...
...Because I spoke English, I was interviewed by almost every news station,” says Plokhii with a touch of wry humor...
...Cambridge is “in no way limited to people asking for change on the street,” added Zachary C. Arnold ’10, another student who participated in collecting data. “It’s people living in the Porter Square T station, in underpasses...