昨日の感動。「金芽米」を昨夜始めて食べてみました。あの荒川静香選手がCMに出ているあれです。近所の、サティー☆VIVREで売っていた。我ながら「ミーハーだよな」とは思ったけれど、まあ、荒川さんの金メダルのお祝いに購入(?)、で食べてみた。 美味しかった。 これ以上は説明はいらない、というか土台、自分が感じた美味しさの説明を他者にするのは無理でしょう。一つ言えるのは、昔、上等の天然塩について作 . . . 本文を読む
●Annan Offers His Blueprint to Make the U.N. More Efficient
Secretary General Kofi Annan proposed sweeping changes on Tuesday that would streamline the United Nations' often chaotic procedures, pro . . . 本文を読む
●Caviar poachers find Japan glad to look other way
The caviar industry is shrinking in Iran and Russia due to rampant poaching, smuggling and a lack of resources management. Japan is one of the big . . . 本文を読む
先日、産経新聞で読んだニュースです。以下引用。
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●駆け込みTOEIC受験 5月からテスト形式変更
英語能力の検定試験「TOEIC」(主催・国際ビジネスコミュニケーション協会)のテスト形式が五月から変更になるのを前に、従来式の最後となる3月26日の公開テストで“駆け込み受験”が起きている。就職時にTOEICのスコア提出を義務付ける企業も増えているだけに「慣れた . . . 本文を読む
●Chinese Premier Pledges Help for the Rural Poor, Playing Down Growth of Military Spending
BEIJING, Sunday, March 5 - China's new "historic task" is to narrow the politically volatile gap between ri . . . 本文を読む
●Online Colleges Receive a Boost From Congress
It took just a few paragraphs in a budget bill for Congress to open a new frontier in education: Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at le . . . 本文を読む
●Senate Approves Renewal of Antiterrorism Bill
The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to extend the Patriot Act, clearing the way for the House to follow suit and send the anti-terrorism bill to Pre . . . 本文を読む
●New take on America’s dropout problem
They number in the millions - 3.5 million in the most recent year for which estimates are available. They are America’s high-school dropouts. Of every three y . . . 本文を読む
●Abortion Opponents Win Dispute
The Supreme Court brought an end Tuesday to a 20-year effort by the National Organization for Women to hold a coalition of anti-abortion groups accountable for a cam . . . 本文を読む
●DPJ's Nagata apologizes but not for allegations
Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata apologized Tuesday for failing to prove allegations he raised in the Diet that Livedoor Co. founde . . . 本文を読む