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There are many other recipes to try. So find one in a local Cabot dining hall today...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A "Cook" Book by Cabot | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...were really happy with the way Novak pitched today,” Walsh said. “He was throwing the ball well, with good velocity, and he’s giving me thoughts about that fourth spot we have open on the weekends...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Falls Flat In Season’s Home Opener | 4/7/2010 | See Source »

...stern uncle, Abbot Cellach, who prioritizes, above all, the construction of a wall that would protect the abbey against a Viking attack. But Brendan soon meets Aidan, an abbot who believes in finishing and preserving a sacred manuscript. This manuscript will become the Book of Kells, today regarded as Ireland’s finest national treasure...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret of Kells | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...become hauntingly common. In 2008 in Tokyo, more than 2,200 people over 65 died lonely deaths, according to statistics from the city's Bureau of Social Welfare and Public Health. The deaths most often involve men in their 50s and the nation's rapidly increasingly elderly population. Today, 1 in 5 Japanese is over 65; by 2030 it will be 1 in 3. With senior citizens increasingly living away from family and a nationwide shortage of nursing homes, many are now living alone. "There is a kind of myth that older people in Japan are living in three-generational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's 'Lonely Deaths': A Business Opportunity | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...Japan's two-decade economic slump is not helping. The collapse of the bubble economy after 1990 shrunk the size of Japanese firms and led to a restructuring that is still playing out today. The percentage of the workforce employed in part-time, temporary and contract work has tripled since 1990, forcing workaholic Japanese businessmen, many of whom never married, into a lonely early retirement. "Their world has evaporated under their feet," says Scott North, an Osaka University sociologist who studies Japanese work life. "The firm has been everything for these men. Their sense of manliness, their social position, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's 'Lonely Deaths': A Business Opportunity | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

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