SOUR ‘日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)’
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How rockets transformed the Middle East arms race and made Russia the big winner:
e elegant and brutal way that the Russians have leveraged their position as the arms supplier of last resort to Iran and Syria is an excellent setup for a season of a show like The Wire set in the global arms business—a black comedy that would fill a big hole in HBO's current lineup and help educate Roger Cohen about the way the world works. The standard Russian negotiating tactic is as follows: Russia signs two contracts for the delivery…
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The All-Inclusive All-You-Can-Eat Buffet Guide
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How much time do Americans over 2 spend watching TV?
o knows where the time goes? A new survey by the Nielsen Company says that a lot of it goes to watching television: the current average for Americans 2 years old and up is 4 hours 49 minutes a day, a record. This leaves us pondering many things, including, Where’s the remote? But also interesting is that the figure is almost 20 percent higher than the one from 10 years ago, when we watched 4 hours and 6 minutes. via…
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Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out:
EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play. It…
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“Most Time Management Is Rubbish. Here Are Ten Things That Work for Me.”
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Do economic booms have downsides?
ina has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economic boom to hire more prostitutes, a senior Chinese health official was quoted as saying Tuesday. The sexually transmitted disease re-emerged in China during 1980s after being virtually eradicated for two decades, and cases are now growing by 30 percent a year, Chen Xiangsheng said in an interview in the World Health Organization's monthly bulletin. Last year, 278,215…
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How many jobs will you have in your life?
en before the current recession, the odds a person in their early-to mid-career would change jobs multiple times was high. The odds of having at least 15 jobs between the ages of 18 and 42 are 1 in 4.39. The odds of holding 11 to 14 jobs between those same ages are actually slightly lower at 1 in 4.67. And the odds of having between two and four jobs in that same time are far lower—1 in 8. via bookofodds.com…
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