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...want to balance work and home is increasing," says Emiko Takeishi, a human-resources expert at Tokyo's Hosei University, "but when you take a look at figures on long working hours, or the take-up of paid leave, they're worse than before." A recent survey by Japan's Cabinet Office found that while 70% of fathers wanted to balance home and career, 23% had little or no time to spend with their children on weekdays. Some are even reluctant to take time off for the birth of their kids. In South Korea, civil servants are permitted three days...
Rather than offering a course exclusively on the Bible, it might be more constructive to offer a survey course on the major faiths: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism. Particularly at this time, a little knowledge of Islam would be most helpful to Americans...
College presidents are disingenuous when they maintain that failure to participate in the U.S. News & World Report survey would put them at a disadvantage in recruiting the best students [April 2]. They could effectively circumvent the ratings list by agreeing to measure only what students have actually learned during the school year. But this would require the use of assessment tools that run the risk of exposing their frequently unwarranted educational claims...
...commission will likely vote on the decision this summer, but a large swath of that land is already protected: in February, the state's largest private landholding - the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch, where numerous condors can be found - banned hunting with lead shot. Not surprisingly, according to a survey completed last month by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, two-thirds of California hunters oppose the proposed state...
...current calendar has ruined every Christmas and New Year’s I can remember,” a senior resident of Mather House said in a survey response.“I lost touch with all my friends because of the calendar,” a student from Quincy House wrote...