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...teachers, while embassies have opened hot lines to aid their stranded citizens. The out-of-work teachers have glutted the local labor market, causing other schools to stop accepting job applications. "The market is already saturated, and many schools have had to slash prices as enrollment steadily declines," says Susumu Ikegami, a spokesperson for GEOS, the country's second largest English institute. "We worry about loss of consumer confidence in the industry as a whole...
McHugh's senior colleague Susumu Tonegawa, a Nobel laureate for his work on the genetics of immunity, had uncovered a related mechanism, called pattern completion, several years ago. That enables you to retrieve complete memories based on just a single cue--for example, the question "Did we go to school together?" He and McHugh suspected, based on this earlier work, that they could identify the specific gene that regulated pattern separation...
...season. A true god of the game like Thai veteran Suebsak Phunsueb-considered sepak takraw's top player for the past several years-might be able to supplement that with advertisements and media work, but he's still no Beckham. At the humbler end of the scale, semipros like Susumu Teramoto, a 31-year-old from Japan, will accept salaries of approximately $200 a month, plus food and lodging, for the privilege of competing against the best in the business...
...Suetsugu, who was beaten in the semifinals of the 200-m race at Sydney four years ago, has come a long way in honing his nanba technique. First introduced to him by coach Susumu Takano (whose 1991 Japanese record in the 400-m still stands), Suetsugu's sumo-like stance in the starting block and stunning stride have become his trademarks. Favored by ancient Japanese assassins and swordsmen for minimizing stress on the body, nanba requires practitioners to run with the hand and foot on one side of the body moving in sync. (In normal locomotion, people swing the right...
INVENTORS Susumu Tachi, Masahiko Inami and Naoki Kawakami AVAILABILITY Around 2008 TO LEARN MORE www.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp