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Earl M. Finch Tribute to Windward Oahu KIAs in World War II

Back in February 2009, on a sightseeing trip with my mother-in-law, I stopped at Castle Junction in Kane‘ohe, Hawai‘i, to photograph the Kane‘ohe Ranch Building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Nearby was...

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Soroptimists Celebrate 70 Years of Sisterhood

The country’s oldest branch of a little-known international women’s service club, the Soroptimists, celebrates its 70th anniversary in Wellington this Sunday (Nov 22 2009). Over the years, Soroptimist International Wellington...

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Mn-Doped BaTiO_{3} Thin Film Sintered Using Nanocrystals and Its Dielectric Properties

Authors: Yoko Takezawa, Keisuke Kobayashi, Fumi Nakasone, Toshimasa Suzuki, Youichi Mizuno, Hiroaki Imai BaTiO_{3} thin films homogeneously doped with Mn were prepared by a novel powder-sintering thin-film process. Mn-doped...

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Entertainment › Noriko Sakai goes to university

Thursday 19th November, 11:00 AM JST TOKYO — Noriko Sakai, who received a suspended sentence last week on charges of drug use and possession, visited Souzou Gakuen University (The University of Creation; Art, Music & Social...

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Fencing: Japan wins Asian championships team foil event

Japan defeated China 45-34 in the men's team foil final at the Asian championships in Doha on Wednesday. The Japanese team, led by Beijing Olympic silver medalist Yuki Ota, beat Malaysia and Hong Kong before reaching the final.

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Japan wins Asian championships team foil event+

TOKYO, Nov. 19 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japan defeated China 45-34 in the men's team foil final at the Asian championships in Doha on Wednesday. The Japanese team, led by Beijing Olympic silver medalist Yuki Ota, beat Malaysia and Hong...

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Acid mishap on Tokyo train injures passengers

TOKYO (Reuters) - Several people were injured when a stone worker riding on a Tokyo subway train accidentally broke a container of hydrochloric acid he was carrying, the fire department and media said on Wednesday.

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American Heart Association Late-Breaking Clinical Trial Report: Tailoring Drug Dose To Heart...

Tailoring the dose of a heart failure drug to a patient's response is better than the one-size-fits-all approach, according to research presented in a late-breaking clinical trial at the American Heart Association's Scientific...

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Go home and multiply! Bank gives staff an early night to halt Japan’s falling birthrate

With the recovery tenuous, deflation afflicting all levels of commerce and the country at risk of sovereign debt crisis, it seemed an odd time for Japan’s biggest and most austere banking group to be telling its staff to knock...

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Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain

Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue of...

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