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MITOYO CITY, Japan—While my host family generally expects me to help with chores around the house, one task is strictly off limits: taking out the trash. “It's just too difficult for foreigners,” she tells me. Perhaps Japan’s strict garbage disposal regulations are as daunting to an outside visitor as Tokyo’s crisscrossed subway map and a writing system with three different alphabets...
...Orleans has a conflicted relationship with the hordes of do-gooders who descend upon the city. On the one hand, it’s nice to have help, especially after what many consider gross neglect by Washington in the aftermath of Katrina. Yet there’s plenty of mistrust, not only because of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s blunders—formaldehyde-laced trailers, for example—but also because when you’re the destination for so many mission trips and “disaster tours,” you might begin...
...conversation to a whole new level - not that there hasn't been some trepidation along the way. Going into the 1970 Census, groups representing people with disabilities tried to keep a question about handicaps off the questionnaire, afraid it would foster stereotypes. Instead, the data that came back helped bolster support for federal programs to help such people, and by the 1980 Census, rights organizations were lobbying for more refined questions, to make it clear how many people were, say, blind vs. paraplegic, so that each group could get its own funding...
With poll numbers sagging and deadlines under threat, Obama needs health-care help - badly. Perhaps that's why the President is turning to Twitter...
...With every vote critical in the Senate, where Democrats already have a 60-seat, theoretically filibuster-proof majority, McConnell decided that saving Bunning's political hide once - his last-minute help in Bunning's 2004 squeaker made the difference - was enough. He quietly signaled to Republican moneymen that they ought to wait Bunning out. Party leaders in Washington met with a potential primary opponent. The tension reached a boiling point when Bunning called Senator John Cornyn of Texas, who will lead efforts to re-elect GOP Senators in 2010, a liar after Cornyn denied he was recruiting an alternative candidate...