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...teach us about other cultures—if the trailer is any indication. It begins in Britain, where, it seems, everything is different. For example, eye contact has different connotations. Here, it’s something to strive for in interviews and avoid on the subway; there, it means you’ve stolen some treasure. Witness two secret agent types stake out a palace gate as Nicholas Cage and his family emerge with a piece of wood. Cage makes eye contact with the agents. They make eye contact with him. And the chase is on. That?...
...when it became the first company helmed by a foreigner who arrived in Japan as an adult to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's NASDAQ equivalent. He's now rich and dines with Japanese Prime Ministers. But Song recounts how he was recently stopped on the subway by police who suspected he was an illegal immigrant. "It's not just the Japanese government," Song says. "It's in the air, this anti-foreigner feeling. Even if Japan loosens immigration, it'll be because of economic necessity, not because of a real change of attitude...
...reeks of seven-year-old self-centeredness. Supposedly, Harvard students are above that. But this speaks to a more general problem: Too often, students view one another as obstacles or means to an end. It’s the same kind of mentality on display in the New York subway as travelers scramble and shove past one another to squeeze onto trains. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that communities, from New York City to Harvard, operate largely on goodwill; We are each partially responsible for the (un)pleasantness of our surroundings. No one is going...
...public sector jobs next year. Those walkouts greatly broadened the front opposing government reform initiated Nov. 14 by transport and utility workers, whose ongoing strikes against the tightening of their pension schemes have caused most rail travel throughout France to be canceled, and have brought suburban train, subway, and bus service to a crawl. Tuesday's movement even found echo in the private sector, where Air France employees resumed strikes begun in late October to demand better pay. That mass action was set to be followed Wednesday with protests by students angered over university reforms, and next week by justice...
...contaminated, nature finds a way to make the world its own once again,” Weisman said. During the talk yesterday, Weisman explained several examples of nature’s capacity for recuperation. At the top of his list was the fate of New York City. According to subway operators, civil engineers, and botanists, Gotham would see its subways flooded within two to three days, bridges collapsed within two to three centuries, and thriving full fledged forests within two to three millennia. Weisman also described the surprising state of the region around Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power...