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| | | | | | | The Yomiuri Shimbun - Japan's leading English-language newspaper--is published by The Yomiuri Shimbun which has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Japan.
The 24-page Daily Yomiuri is an excellent source of both domestic and foreign news.
Enjoy articles about a wide variety of hot topics both in Japan and abroad, including music, entertainment, travel, gourmet food, newsmakers, information technology, environmental issues, science and reviews of newly released books. | The 3rd international Living knowledge conference will provide a forum where information on community based research, carried out in both community and academic settings, on new forms of partnerships between research and civil society and on new modes of innovation can be shared and developed. It aims at disseminating and exchanging information on community based and participatory research, on citizens' science and cooperative innovation. It will present the work of a whole range of structures and science-society interactions.This will include science shops, NGOs, universities and research institutions engaged with citizens, independent institutes, participatory action research centres, political bodies, and social movements - all responding to a growing demand for research coming from wider civil society. These groups undertake a comprehensive range of research topics, including research on local and global environment, health, safety, mobility, unemployment, poverty, minorities’ issues, disability, research on voluntary action and social capital, and national and international development. They offer a broader perspective on what should beincluded in science and research. | National Geographic Traveler is the world's most widely read travel magazine. It championed sustainable travel before it was cool and, eight times annually, celebrates journeys that are about place, experience, culture, authenticity, living like the locals, and great photography. It makes a distinction between tourism and travel, and stresses inquisitive not acquisitive trips. It employs storytelling and you-are-there photography to inspire readers to pick up and go. And, with the theme of "All Travel, All the Time," it eschews fashion and fluff in favor of articles that offer a strong sense of place, inspiring narratives that make readers take trips, and solid service information to help them plan those trips. | Worlds.com is the leader and pioneer in the development and delivery of three-dimensional content and technology on the Internet. Through the creation of 3D Internet sites, Worlds' primary objective is to create an online community of member/users who form the basis for multi-user chat, e-commerce and advertising forums in a broad range of categories. Our proprietary content and software permit animation and motion in 3D Internet communities, which enable online users to move about various spaces via the selection of an avatar. Worlds' Avatar Gallery has over 100 different characters (avatars) from which an online user may select and customize into one of millions of different avatars. Worlds.com is at the forefront of the next phase of the Internet, the phase that truly empowers the user by putting the user "in" the Internet rather than on the Internet. | | American Scientist (ISSN 0003-0996) is an illustrated bimonthly magazine about science and technology. Each issue is filled with feature articles written by prominent scientists and engineers, reviewing important work in fields that range from molecular biology to computer engineering. The articles are carefully edited and accompanied by illustrations that are developed to enhance the reader's understanding and enjoyment | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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