Ko Sasaki for The New York TimesBags of contaminated soil outside the Naraha-Minami school near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. NARAHA, Japan — The decontamination crews at a deserted elementary school here are at the forefront of what Japan says is the most ambitious radiological cleanup the world has seen, one that promised to draw on cutting-edge technology from across the globe. ...
Global Update: China Moves to Prevent Spread of Yellow Fever From Africa
Label: HealthIn a move that underlines how many Chinese citizens now work in Africa, China’s quarantine officials recently urged greater efforts to make sure that a yellow fever epidemic now raging in Sudan does not come back to China. Local health authorities were asked to scan all travelers arriving from Sudan for fevers. Chinese citizens planning travel to Sudan were advised to get yellow fever shots....
Global Update: China Moves to Prevent Spread of Yellow Fever From Africa
Label: LifestyleIn a move that underlines how many Chinese citizens now work in Africa, China’s quarantine officials recently urged greater efforts to make sure that a yellow fever epidemic now raging in Sudan does not come back to China. Local health authorities were asked to scan all travelers arriving from Sudan for fevers. Chinese citizens planning travel to Sudan were advised to get yellow fever shots....
American Delegation Arrives in North Korea on Controversial Private Trip
Label: TechnologyDavid Guttenfelder/Associated PressEric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, arrived in Pyongyang on Monday. SEOUL, South Korea — Bill Richardson, the former governor of New Mexico, led a private delegation including Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, to North Korea on Monday, a controversial trip to a country that is among the most hostile to the Internet. Kim Kwang Hyon/Associated...
With Eye on China, Japan Weighs Raising Military Spending
Label: WorldTOKYO — Japan’s new conservative government announced a review of national military strategy on Monday that analysts said was aimed at offsetting China’s growing military power and that may increase defense spending for the first time in a decade. Franck Robichon/European Pressphoto AgencyOne of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s campaign promises was to strengthen the military. ...
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Future of TV to Be Displayed at Electronics Show
Label: BusinessLAS VEGAS — Your smartphone is the screen in your pocket. Your computer is the screen on your desk. Your tablet is a screen for the couch. Ethan Miller/Getty ImagesSamsung’s exhibit at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, which attracted 140,000 to the Las Vegas Convention Center. Yuriko Nakao/ReutersSony, which exhibited 84-inch TVs at an electronics...
Alarm in Albuquerque Over Plan to End Methadone for Inmates
Label: HealthMark Holm for The New York TimesOfficials at New Mexico’s largest jail want to end its methadone program. Addicts like Penny Strayer hope otherwise. ALBUQUERQUE — It has been almost four decades since Betty Jo Lopez started using heroin. Her face gray and wizened well beyond her 59 years, Ms. Lopez would almost certainly still be addicted, if not for the fact that she is locked away in jail,...
Alarm in Albuquerque Over Plan to End Methadone for Inmates
Label: LifestyleMark Holm for The New York TimesOfficials at New Mexico’s largest jail want to end its methadone program. Addicts like Penny Strayer hope otherwise. ALBUQUERQUE — It has been almost four decades since Betty Jo Lopez started using heroin. Her face gray and wizened well beyond her 59 years, Ms. Lopez would almost certainly still be addicted, if not for the fact that she is locked away in jail,...
Virtual U.: Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet
Label: TechnologyRamin Rahimian for The New York TimesCoursera has 35 employees in Mountain View, Calif. An employee works on a laptop near a new reception area. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In August, four months after Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng started the online education company Coursera, its free college courses had drawn in a million users, a faster launching than either Facebook or Twitter. The co-founders,...
India Ink: India's Rape and Sexual Assault Laws Under Scrutiny
Label: WorldThe death of a young rape victim in from Delhi has reopened a debate in India about the country’s sexual assault and rape laws, as sweeping changes are being demanded to improve women’s rights in the country.Compared to the much of the rest of the world, sections of India’s laws covering rape are inadequate and narrowly defined, critics say. And India’s way of delivering justice to rape victims is...
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