Several juicy news pieces are in Today's NY Times and Wall Street Journal.


(Women and International news)

On Time's page one, I learned about how Algeria, one of the Arabic countries, is undergoing a quite gender and social revolution. Astonishing data showed that women make up 70 percent of Algeria's lawyers and 60 percent of its judges. Women dominate medicine. More interestingly, women contributed more to household income than men. sixty percent of university students are women.

(Business)

In my first year studying abroad in the U.S, it's not difficult to find "Vitaminwater" as a very popular soft drink in campus. Students drink Vitaminwater in class. On deskes in library, besides coffee, colorful bottles of Vitaminwater line up-- purple, white, pink, and yellow. It's popular for its healthy combination of water and vitamin, and it's intriguing for its refreshing flavor. It's so popular that Coke Cola shows his interest. "Coke takes 4 billion step away from carbination" is the headline of C1's buisiness page in Times.

(Art)

The home of the national broadcasting archives in Netherland was designed by William Jan Neutelings and Michel Riedijk.

"Standing on an isolated lot flanked by a small garden, its glowing glass shell recalls the translucent exterior of Gordon Bunsheft's 1963 Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale. Like many architects of their generation, Mr. Neutelings and Mr. Riedijk have been heavily influenced by postwar architects like Bunsheft: the brutal directness of his buildings carries particular appeal when so much architecture is corrupted by fairy-tale images straight from Disney. Both buildings are taut, confident structures. But Neutelings and Riedijk's building is rooted in pop culture rather than in ethos of postwar corporate America."

(International: Wall Street Journal)

【Cautiously, an Aging Japan Warms to Foreign Workers】

The reporter wrote with the a historic tone/ fabric.

"Japan, long known for its resistence to mass immigration, is gradually starting to use more foreigners to solve its labor shortage."

"Resistence to allowing in foreign workers runs strong in this island nation, where virtually everyone speaks Japanese and shares a similar ethic and cultural background. From 1639 to 1854, Japan banned nearly all foreigners from entering the country. The only major immigration in modern times came before and during WW2, when several million Koreans came to Japan. At that time Korea was a Japanese colony."