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...Much of Japan already has that sinking feeling. A decade ago, 90% of Japanese considered themselves "middle-class." In an Asia-wide survey conducted by U.T. last year, however, 60% of Japanese now rate their economic status as "below middle-class." The public's increasing awareness of kakusa shakai is reflected in the Japanese media's obsession with who is up and who is down. Whether in magazines, on TV chat shows or on bookstore shelves, the domestic debate is dominated by the idea of kachigumi and makegumi ("the winning team" and the "losing team"). Fashion magazines are filled with...
...India "the world's biggest heritage site." But even conservationists like Thakur admit that it's impossible, even immoral, for a developing nation with a quarter of the world's poorest inhabitants to spend the fortune needed to preserve that history. The country's main heritage body, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is so constrained financially that it limits its care to just 3,653 buildings?and, even for these, worries remain. The ASI's 2004-5 budget of $58 million works out at less than $16,000 per monument?and that's before paying for 8,000 staff...
...house of his great rival Ghalib is revealed to have been turned into a coal store; but most of the losses go unrecorded. I find it heartbreaking: every time I revisit one of my favorite monuments, it has either been overrun by a slum, unsympathetically restored by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), or simply demolished. By now, almost all the havelis of Old Delhi have been destroyed. According to historian Pavan Varma, the majority of the buildings he recorded in his book Mansions at Dusk 13 years ago no longer exist...
Forty-nine percent of registered voters nationwide would like to see former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani seek the presidency in 2008, and 51 percent would like to see Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., run for the White House, according to a survey released by Marist College in May. For anyone who has read Floyd Abrams’ recently released memoir, “Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment,” these poll figures are frightening...
Fryer and Torelli used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which surveyed more than 90,000 junior-high and high-school students from 175 schools in 80 communities around the country. Students taking the survey were asked to define their own ethnicity, Fryer said. Rather than allow students to define their own social status, the authors created a “spectral popularity index” to measure, for each student, the number of same-race friends within his or her school. They then weighted each student’s popularity by the popularity of each friend...