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In thinking of the future of Japan, one parable is the little island of Akashima in the Goto archipelago near Nagasaki. Yoshie Kakou, a friendly seventy-year-old fisherman, stood on a bluff on

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas (song by Irving Berlin) As far as Christmas is concerned, I happen to be in that peculiarly awkward position which you may sometime have found yourself in. I found

PAINFUL TRUTH No. 1: The Best Shoes Are the Worst Runners wearing top-of-the-line shoes are 123 percent more likely to get injured than runners in cheap shoes, according to a study led by Bernard

news of the laws of cooking. You may, if you wish, fry an egg on a hot sidewalk. You may not apparently cook a chicken in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park. Acting on a tip, a park ranger

Filling the four thousand positions a new president is authorized to fill is a daunting task even for the best prepared candidates. Donald Trump said he did not expect to win and thus it was no

Chris Christie was sitting on a sofa beside Donald Trump when Pennsylvania was finally called. It was one thirty-five in the morning, but that wasn't the only reason the feeling in the room was odd.

William S. Paley, president and chairman of the Columbia Broadcasting System, was of a type lost to our times, when vice has ceased to pay virtue its natural tribute, hypocrisy. He was simultaneously

One Father's Day, our teenage kids banded together and got Nick the perfect gift for any dad - a rat. It was an African giant pouched rat, to be precise, and it has a wondrous sense of smell that

Take a pair of sparkling eyes (W S Gilbert, "The Goldoliers") I suppose this one really started when my son got one of his sore throats because who should rush into me but Glinka. Now Glinka is the

Barefoot Ted was right, of course. Lost in all the fireworks between Ted and Caballo was an important point: running shoes may be the most destructive force to ever hit the human foot. Barefoot Ted,

A family of four in Florida was on their way to the hospital with a medical emergency when they ran out of gas. Fortunately, paramedics got there and took the sick family member to the hospital. But

That Trump was not fully investigated by the enforcement division was obvious to anyone who read its 1982 licensing report. But it was almost a decade later that investigative reporter Wayne Barrett's

Back in 2013 there had been an incident in California that got everyone's attention. Late one night, just southeast of San Jose, at Pacific Gas and Electric's Metcalf substation, a well-informed

What might make Lucky Strike stand out? In 1917, the brand had gotten its start with an idea conceived by Hopkins. "It's toasted" was the slogan, the "secret" step supposedly yielding a better flavor.

If evolution has indeed left us hardwired to be social and derive satisfaction from altruism, then it's obviously not just the affluent who have these needs. Indeed, some interesting initiatives give

Ken's first test subject was Alan Melvin, a world-class Masters triathlete in his sixties. First, Ken set a baseline by having Melvin run four hundred meters full out. Then he clipped a small electric

Ben Workman of Utah is never going to lose his keys again. He implanted a chip inside his hand that allows him to unlock his Tesla with just a wave. This procedure is still pretty rare. A piercing

Particularly troubling was Trump's dawdling on ambassadorships after he created a problem by firing every current ambassador the moment he took his oath. While he had the power to do so, traditionally

There is an awards ceremony to celebrate people who had done extraordinary things in government. Every year the Sammies - as Max called them, in honor of his original patron - attracted a few more

Among fly fisherman in the Pacific Northwest, Liam Wood was a wunderkind. He started casting at age nine and was soon tying his own flies. Still in school, he got a part-time job at a sporting-goods