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...return to traditional values, to Japan "the beautiful country," his favorite figure of political speech. "Abe seems to be a modern politician, but he actually has a nostalgic 1950s vision of Japan that doesn't comport with reality today," says Michael Zielenziger, author of the book Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation. Adds Carol Gluck, a professor at Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute: "His rhetoric plays as a reassurance that things are not going to fall apart. But most people do not agree with...
...Your first sight of Machu Picchu comes after you've passed the final checkpoint-the Sun Gate and its near-vertical flight of 50 stone steps. Spread before you, in the distance, is Machu Picchu's labyrinth of temples, terraces and plazas. This is where the descent into the ancient city begins-and, with luck, you will have arrived shortly before the last tourist bus departs (at 5:30 p.m.). That means you could have this astonishing, spiritual haunt virtually to yourself, in conditions of near silence. Now how's that for a sense of arrival...
Absolutely. We opened up a community outside Charlotte, South Carolina, last year--Sun City Carolina Lakes--and it's been our most successful Del Webb opening ever. We sold 700 homes in nine to 10 months. Almost every resident has signed up with a high-speed Internet provider. That's because they're working. We are finding more and more adults who continue to work past traditional retirement...
...jobs are being outsourced to China or India, that regular folks can't get ahead anymore, Loudoun and its neighboring counties seem to offer a resounding corrective. From 2000 to 2005, the Washington metropolitan area, of which Loudoun is part, added 359,000 jobs--much more than even such Sun Belt boomtowns as Phoenix, Ariz., and Dallas...
...their stereotypes of a snow-covered Denver.And if you want to get me really, really mad, just slam a door in my face.—Malcom A. Glenn is a junior History concentrator in Leverett House. He enjoys long walks in the Bay Area and seeing the sun set over the Golden Gate Bridge...