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Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Entrepreneurs
They are explorers and activists, artists and educators, farmers and faith leaders – even mayors. And they have trenchant suggestions on how to improve the world.
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Chapter & Verse '1Q84' author Haruki Murakami makes his first public appearance in Japan in 18 years
Murakami appeared at Kyoto University to discuss his new novel 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.'
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Helium-breathing apes display operatic vocal skills, say researchers (+video)
The gibbon, a lesser ape native to Asia, uses the same vocal techniques as trained sopranos, finds a Japanese experiment involving helium-enriched air.
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Why did Japanese scientists make apes inhale helium? (+video)
Gibbons, a family of small ape native to Asia, are able to adjust their vocal anatomy just like the world's best sopranos, a new study involving a captive gibbon and helium-enriched air.
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Horizons Akira Yoshizawa: Why origami matters
Akira Yoshizawa, honored Wednesday with a Google doodle on his 101st birthday, helped introduce to the world an art form that has proven very useful in mathematics and engineering.
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Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Entrepreneurs
They are explorers and activists, artists and educators, farmers and faith leaders – even mayors. And they have trenchant suggestions on how to improve the world.
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Global News Blog Japan nuclear update: No need to worry about Tokyo tap water, officials say
Tokyo tap water is again within acceptable drinking limits for infants, after briefly testing too radioactive. Meanwhile, three workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were injured Thursday.
03/24/2011 10:07 am -
Tokyo tap water too radioactive for infants, officials say
Officials warned today that infants should not drink Tokyo tap water because radioactive iodine exceeded legal limits at one purification facility.
03/23/2011 09:39 am -
After earthquake, Japan asks how a nation prepares for the unimaginable
Japan has been widely praised for its disaster readiness, but the magnitude 9.0 earthquake has the country asking how it can be better equipped to handle the next big one.
03/18/2011 06:31 pm -
Bank of Japan struggle tests prime minister's leadership
The opposition rejected a second candidate Wednesday.
03/20/2008 01:00 am
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