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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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Returning from our reverie after the short, 5-minute drive from the station, we arrive at Budo-no-Oka and climb the steep marble steps past a tumbling waterfall to the main building, a low-roofed stru... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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The number of customers and the amount they spent dropped last year. Japanese-style pubs including izakaya were especially hard hit, with 6 percent lower income. Customers at traditional-style coffee ... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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MIAMI (AP) A woman claims in a lawsuit filed only days before the Super Bowl that former Dallas Cowboys star Michael Irvin sexually assaulted her at a South Florida hotel, an allegation labeled a fals... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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Heated politics of disbelief ": How many more inconvenient "climate-gates" will be needed before journalists start doing their job, i.e. questioning? Sorry to disappoint, but climate skepticism exists... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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NEW DELHI — What U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has been pursuing in Afghanistan for the past one year has now received international imprimatur, thanks to the well-scripted London... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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Regarding the Feb. 4 article " 'Cove' smells Oscar blood": "The Cove" (a documentary about the annual slaughter of dolphins at Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture) is an illegal film. I do not see why it is sh... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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I read U.S. President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address with great interest (Jan. 29 edition, Page 5). I think he deserves all our support because he has been working so hard to save not... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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What started as an evening of Asian fusion more or less ended in consensus about Asian confusion. Many Asian economies are surging, especially compared to the United States. According to estimates o... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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LAGUNA NIGEL, Calif. (AP) The ball Alex Rodriguez hit for his 500th home run has sold at auction for $ 103,579. SCP Auctions said Thursday the buyer decided to remain anonymous. |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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A friend just sent me a satellite photograph taken last month of the whole of Britain blanketed in white, and wrote about the homeless folk dying in extremely cold weather in Poland. Perhaps some peop... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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Basketball aficionados and casual fans alike remember Michael Jordan's clutch shots in the closing seconds of games. Other clutch shooters, such as Jerry West and Reggie Miller, have buried dozens of ... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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A senior U.S. government official has warned Japan that its failure to join an international treaty on child custody may have adverse effects on Washington's assistance in resolving North Korean abduc... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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The Marines have handed former manager Bobby Valentine's old uniform to recent signee Makoto Imaoka. The former Hanshin Tigers star earned himself a spot on the roster after a brief tryout at the te... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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It is, however, in his rabid postcolonial complex about Hong Kong that Lai shows his true colors. The terrible capitalist exploiters of Hong Kong never had to worry about the population fleeing en mas... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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ATLANTA (AP) The assist Josh Smith needed for his triple-double set up the basket the Atlanta Hawks needed to finally pull away from the Chicago Bulls. |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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A recent report by the National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan concluded what many commuters already know: Hand-pulled bags on casters are dangerous. Anyone taking the train or walking through a cro... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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About 160 members of the Self-Defense Forces left for Haiti on Saturday evening to engage in U.N. peacekeeping operations and help with reconstruction activities in the impoverished Caribbean nation d... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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New visa rule on insurance to be deleted " (about the Immigration Bureau's plan to delete a proposed rule that would have linked the bureau's decision on whether to renew a foreign resident's visa to ... |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) A third Brazilian suspect was arrested Friday over a hit-and-run incident in Nagoya earlier in the week in which three pedestrians were killed, police said. |
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Saturday, 06 February 2010 |
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The first-place Ryukyu Golden Kings held their own against the Rizing Fukuoka, their top challenger in the Western Conference, in the teams' first game of the season's second half. |
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