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Monday Oct 26 | Salon.com

How your pet is killing the planet

As provocative titles go, "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," is a doozy, guaranteed to ensure outrage and oodles of provocative blog post headlines.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Life, Food, Recipes, World News, Japan, Asia, Investment Banking, Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Services, Financial Markets

Sat Oct 24, 2009

Asahi Shimbun

Narita's extended runway in service

Services resumed on Narita International Airport's second runway Thursday, after the completion of work to lengthen it from 2,180 to 2,500 meters.

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Thu Oct 22, 2009

The Japan Times

Runway extension at Narita finally opens

NARITA, Chiba Pref. Narita International Airport, the country's main international gateway, opened the long-awaited extension to its second runway Thursday.

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Sun Oct 18, 2009

National Post

Pacific notion

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas recalls stories he heard as a child of Haida fishermen pursuing northern fur seals across the Pacific Ocean on hunts which would last months at a time and take them as far away as the shores of Japan.

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Fri Oct 16, 2009

CiteULike

On the semantics of conditional commitment

We present a solution to these problems. We also formalize two types of communicative actions that can be used by an agent to request another agent to achieve a goal or perform an action provided that some condition becomes true.

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Sat Oct 03, 2009

USGS Earthquakes

M 4.9, near the east coast of Honshu, Japan

Distances 40 km E of Aomori, Honshu, Japan 45 km NW of Hachinohe, Honshu, Japan 115 km SSE of Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan 580 km NNE of TOKYO, Japan Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 14 km ; depth fixed by location program Parameters NST= 16, Nph= 16, Dmin=216 km, Rmss=0.46 sec, Gp= 79, M-type=body wave magnitude , Version=6 Source USGS NEIC Event ...

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Wed Aug 12, 2009

Journal of Experimental Botany

Ca2+ influx and phosphoinositide signalling are essential for the...

The significance of Ca2+ influx and phosphoinositide signalling during the formation of cell polarity in migrating monospores was analysed pharmacologically.

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Sun Aug 02, 2009

The Japan Times

Marui Imai reopens under sponsor

SAPPORO Bankrupt Marui Imai Inc., Hokkaido's biggest department store chain, resumed business Saturday by reopening two of its four stores as subsidiaries of sponsor Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.

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Fri Jul 24, 2009

Kyodo News

Recording of interrogations should be pledged in manifestos

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations will ask political parties to pledge the introduction of full mandatory recording of questioning of criminal suspects in their manifestos prior to the Aug.

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Tue Jul 21, 2009

Reuters

UPDATE 2-BOJ's Yamaguchi cautious on corp funding outlook

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Hirohide Yamaguchi hinted he may favour extending the central bank's unconventional measures aimed at easing credit strains beyond December, saying on Wednesday that it was unclear if corporate funding conditions would keep improving.

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Fri Jul 10, 2009

Daily Yomiuri

JR West head ready to fight / Denies he could have foreseen possibility of fatal 2005 derailment

West Japan Railway Co. President Masao Yamazaki has made clear his intention to wholeheartedly challenge in court his indictment over a fatal 2005 rail crash.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

CiteULike

Learning the task allocation game

NEW ddahlem NEW Abstract The distributed task allocation problem occurs in domains like web services, the grid, and other distributed systems.

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Wed May 13, 2009

The Japan Times

Local governments make pitch on YouTube

From cash-strapped local governments to small municipalities eager to promote their cultural and tourism resources, public servants are increasingly turning to the world's biggest video site.

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Related Topix: World News, Japan, Asia, Travel, Japan Travel

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