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...year-olds, according to the UFJ Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank. Now they're viewed as slackers, unproductive dropouts in a society that increasingly needs youthful economic vitality. Particular wrath is reserved for the "parasite singles"?freeters who maintain a high standard of living despite low pay (or zero pay) by moving in with...
...these are animals that suffer for their families. They're obliged to trek some 70 miles to their breeding ground (where the ice is thick enough to support the enormous colony). There they all approach starvation during the dark, 80º-below-zero winter, the father protecting the egg while the mother returns to the ocean for food, which she stores in her belly and disgorges to the hatched chick. She then takes over the baby sitting while the father makes the same journey...
...people doing the most recoiling are the mightiest of Republicans: the Bush family. Instead of supporting her campaign, top Republican officials have been trying to kill it, first by begging retired General Tommy Franks to enter the race and--after he turned them down--courting someone with almost zero name recognition, Florida house speaker Allan Bense, to run against Harris, who is now in her second term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Florida Governor Jeb Bush has made several recruiting calls to Bense, who headed to Washington last week where he was serenaded by a powerful trio--the President...
...said he wanted to make a film about "American refugees." He thinks of northern New Jersey as postwar Europe. There, survival was a form of heroism, and filmmakers like Roberto Rossellini etched stories of a continent of the homeless. So this is Spielberg's Open City or Germany Year Zero, disguised as When E.T.s...
Together, the boys skied through the sub-zero Berkshire winds, enduring falls and frostbite with grins. My brother and I used to love to remember how Paul, usually the consummate athlete but only an amateur skier, was unafraid to lose a ski or two in his dogged pursuit of the expert trails. He was happy to whiz down the mountain with his friends and fully willing to end up in the snow instead of on it, if that’s what it took to have a good time...