Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology figures list a total of 66,000 part-time lecturers in Japan but ministry officials estimate the actual number at about one-third of this.
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Why do people spend so much money on animals? To find out, researchers watched hundreds of people as they played with small animals. These researchers learned that animals had a great on most of the people. Animals seemed to calm those who touched and talked to them. People's blood pressure actually dropped.
Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover
Aoki is a leader of the nonmainstream Ryutaro Hashimoto faction. He is expected to offer Koizumi the faction's support in the election if Koizumi pledges to give due consideration to the faction in naming a drastically reshuffled cabinet to establish a whole-party administration, the sources said.
The percentage of national pension premiums that were paid in fiscal 2002 declined 8.1 percentage points from 70.9 percent in the previous year to a record low of 62.8 percent, the Social Insurance Agency said Thursday.
Nov. 21 -- There is one member of the Osbourne family who remains a mystery to the public: 19-year-old Aimee Osbourne, who chose not to be a part of the MTV reality show that made the rest of her family famous.