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...Doctors must begin to recognize racial differences when planning corrective dental therapy," claims Dr. Peter T. Kai-jen Yen, assistant clinical professor of Orthodontics at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine...
...bossy. It was just a joke." More serious is the fact that "Tom Cat," or Thomas Riha, 40, associate professor of Russian history at the University of Colorado, has been missing since March. Only the "Colonel"-Mrs. Galya Tannenbaum, a prison alumna with a knack for forgery and a yen for mystery-claims to have seen him since...
...original 261 indicted, 110 were acquitted; 93 were found guilty and given suspended sentences ranging from fines of 2,500 yen ($6.95) to two years' imprisonment; 16 have died since the trial began; and a number of people who pleaded "partially guilty" will be sentenced shortly. Some defendants swore they would appeal their convictions. Said Eiichi Iwata, who drew a two-year suspended sentence: "We'll fight to the end." For Iwata, now 62, it might be just that; an appeal to the Tokyo High Court and the Supreme Court could take ten years or more...
...convenient label is country rock. However labeled, it is a turning back toward easy-rhythmed blues, folk songs, and the twangy, lonely lamentations known as country music. Country rock is also a symptom of a general cultural reaction to the most unsettling decade the U.S. has yet endured. The yen to escape the corrupt present by returning to the virtuous past ?real or imagined?has haunted Americans, never more' so than today. A nostalgic country twang resounds all up and down the pop charts. Glen Campbell and Johnny Cash, two singers once chained to the old country circuit...
Next, the Yen? Japan's export success is giving the country some of the currency troubles that became all too familiar in Germany during the past two years. The October revaluation of the mark left the yen as the currency that bankers consider to be the world's most undervalued. Japan has tried various expedients to reduce its embarrassingly large holdings of foreign money and avoid a yen revaluation, which would raise Japanese export prices. For example, the government has increased the amount of foreign currency that Japanese firms can invest overseas without specific permission. So far, speculators...