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...closely fought contest, it was the Badgers that got the upper hand in the doubles. The Badgers sealed the doubles point with wins...
That's because Muto must be approved by Japan's parliament-and some opposition party politicians say he's the wrong man for the job. Members of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which controls the upper house of the Diet, complain that Muto, a career bureaucrat who has spent some 35 years in the Ministry of Finance, will be too cozy with Fukuda's administration at a time when the central bank needs to exercise leadership and independence. After growing relatively briskly over the last five years, Japan's economy now appears to be slipping into a malaise...
...same might be said of Japan's parliament, which has been plagued by squabbling between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP), which controls the lower house, and the DPJ, whose members won a surprise majority in the upper house in elections last July. With Fukui's departure looming, politicians have been unable to reach agreement on a successor, with some DPJ lawmakers saying they prefer former deputy Central Bank governor Yutaka Yamaguchi. Business leader Mikio Wakatsuki, chairman of AXA Life Insurance of Japan, told reporters this week that it was "a national disgrace that this issue remains unresolved...
...Chiang Rai. Under Thai electoral law, the ruling could lead to the PPP's dissolution. Nor can Thaksin run for office, since he was banned from politics for five years by the junta. Any attempts by Samak's government to ease Thaksin back into politics could ignite protests by upper- and middle-class Bangkok residents, who took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands shortly before the former PM was ousted...
...Steve Beeby, an engineer at the University of Southampton in Britain, created a vibration harvester that works on that principle much more efficiently than similar devices did in the past. The electricity isn't much: his devices now generate hundreds of microwatts at most, and there may be an upper limit to how much energy can really be scavenged from vibrations. "It's very unlikely on a big scale," says Beeby, who directed the European Union's Vibration Energy Scavenging project. "It will never compete with wind power or anything like that...