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Japan seems more resilient too, under the leadership of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He has been pushing to cut the nation's red tape and deregulate the economy. December figures suggested that the reforms are helping to restore confidence: exports rose 17.5% while imports surged 27%, reflecting healthy domestic demand as well as higher oil prices. Overall, the Japanese economy grew 2.6% in 2005, and despite a huge budget deficit and heavy debt, most forecasters expect it to grow at least 2.2% this year...
...message. I click it, and the link generates this alert: "Message will download next time you connect and receive e-mail." Excuse me? I want the rest of the message now! It's remedied fairly quickly by a "Send/Receive," but it's a good example of the digital red tape you might encounter...
...tangible harm from skipping class. Such concerns, however, are misguided. While students’ attendance at lectures is generally more pedagogically beneficial than their watching or listening to a recording, students are aware of the potential harms of choosing to download rather than attend a lecture. Even with the tape rolling, those lectures that provide a genuinely interactive learning experience will continue to draw students. Others may suffer lower attendance. But a drop in the number of filled seats is preferable to students’ being coerced into attending poor-quality lectures due to the unavailability of online materials. Moreover...
...level with Beautiful Collision, an album in which she exploded genres - from folk to rock to country - with the glassy resonance of her voice. So it's strange to find her latest release, Birds, darker and scuzzier sounding, as if it were an original '60s session tape rediscovered in an old suitcase...
...rather different. In the dusty village of At Samart, Ouan Poysomboon, 73, recalls her recent encounter with the man who has led Thailand for the past five years. Earlier this month Thaksin camped out for a week in the area, bringing an entourage of officials and reporters to tape a reality-TV show. Grandma Ouan was selected for a personal audience with Thaksin. She says she told him how she struggled to survive on $5 a week while paying off debts of $5,000 incurred by her two sons, both of whom were killed in a Bangkok traffic accident...