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Japan population crisis: This community went a quarter century without a newborn
Tokyo CNN — When Kentaro Yokobori was born almost seven years ago, he was the first newborn in the Sogio district of Kawakami village in 25 years. His birth was like a miracle for many villagers. Well-wishers visited his parents Miho and Hirohito for more than a week – nearly all of them senior citizens, including some who could barely walk. “The elderly people were very happy to see [Kentaro], and an elderly lady who had difficulty climbing the stairs, with her cane, came to me to hold my baby in her arms. All the elderly people took turns holding my baby,” Miho recalled. During that quarter century without a…
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A Century of Technological Evolution at the Federal Trade Commission
I am honored to announce the creation of the Business of Know-how (OT) at the Federal Trade Commission, a staff that will offer technological expertise throughout agency issues and fortify the agency’s potential to implement the nation’s competitors and consumer defense legislation. We are employing technologists to be a part of the group. Remaining on the reducing edge of emerging know-how has lengthy been a main section of the FTC’s mandate. The emergence of the radio in the 1920s is an specifically vivid case in point. The radio was getting ubiquitous in American residing rooms, generating radically new choices for leisure and facts. At the similar time, this new gadget…
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Bode makes 20th century clothes for 21st century people
Published by Nick Remsen, CNN CNN Design is a single of the formal media associates of Paris Fashion Week. See all coverage here. A number of weeks in the past, Mick Jagger posted a vacation concept to his Instagram feed whilst donning a deep pink paisley shirt, its pattern whirling with canary yellow and inky black particulars. The piece had one thing nostalgically glamourous about it: Decadent nonetheless at ease, it was as befitting of Jagger’s bohemian rockstar aesthetic as it was his timeless presence. “Perhaps he acquired it for Christmas,” joked Emily Adams Bode Aujla, creator of the garment and founder of its eponymous label, Bode, more than a…
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