Though street crime is relatively low in Japan, quirky camouflage designs like this vending-machine dress are being offered to an increasingly anxious public to hide from would-be assailants.Credit...Torin Boyd/Polaris, for The New York Times TOKYO, Oct. 19 — On a narrow Tokyo street, near a beef bowl restaurant and a pachinko parlor, Aya Tsukioka demonstrated new clothing designs that she hopes w
There are two Israels: one inside the Green Line, the 1967 border, the other an occupying power extending beyond it. The first is a vibrant democracy, with Arab members of Parliament, university professors and lawyers, beauty queens and soldiers, and even a Muslim cabinet minister. There are no separate roads for Arabs and Jews in the name of that all-purpose explanation “security,” no villages ma
More Than Just a Fighting Force, Myanmar’s Military Is the Nation’s Driving Force BANGKOK, Oct. 6 — “Crushing all enemies, on land, underground and at sea, all enemies, we will crush them totally, until they are uprooted, decimated.” This, poetically put on Armed Forces Day in March 2006, is the Burmese Army’s view of itself: the backbone and protector of a nation besieged by enemies from within a
In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation’s health care. By combining better Internet search tools, the vast resources of the Web and online personal health records, both companies are betting they can enable people to
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10 � In a decision that may finally settle one of the most bitter legal battles surrounding software widely used in corporate data centers, a federal district court judge in Utah ruled Friday afternoon that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system. In the 102-page ruling, the judge, Dale A. Kimball, also said Novell c
The controversy over whether to implant radio identification tags in humans will not be abating anytime soon, but the complicated web of money-losing businesses behind the technology is about to become simpler. The company controlling the tagging technology, marketed as VeriChip, is Applied Digital Solutions, based in Delray Beach, Fla. Applied Digital set up the VeriChip Corporation, also in Delr
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