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...large extent on peer pressure at a particular school. Some schools go so far as to ban dating, but at others "it's embarrassing if you haven't had sex, and you're under pressure to lose your virginity quickly," says Tsunetsugu Munakata, associate professor of health at Tsukuba University. "At one school I heard students would go to love hotels in their uniforms," declares Tetsuya Iizuka, 19, who lost his virginity four years ago, an experience "that made me the center of attention in high school...
Cambridge has at least four other sister cities, including San Jose Las Flores in El Salvador, Tsukuba in Japan and towns in Portugal and Italy, Wolf said. However, similar efforts to expand ties in this way are not planned...
...busily trying to develop entirely new markets. The government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has offered its blessing -- and a sizable chunk of its budget -- to firms that are moving into such high-tech fields as supercomputers, biotechnology, lasers, aerospace and artificial intelligence. At MITI's Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba Science City, 37 miles northeast of | Tokyo, scientists are building exotic robots that, among other uses, have proved handy for entertaining foreign guests. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, for one, enjoyed a game of catch with the lab's artificial hand...
...something new to worry about. After years of trying, Mitsubishi Electric has developed a moving staircase that carries passengers not just up or down in a straight line but through a graceful, sweeping arc. The first two circular escalators will be installed next March in a shopping mall in Tsukuba, Japan. Cost: $325,000. A pair of conventional models, by contrast, costs...
...councilors, however, said they had no complaints about their travels. Vellucci last week said he had printed up business cards in Japanese to prepare for his visit to Yatabe Tsukuba Science City, a newly formed high technology community near Tokyo...