Angola’s story is an unfortunate one, and while it is today one of the fastest growing economies in the world, the country was plagued by civil war from 1975 to 2002.

While residents of the hard-hit areas continue their struggle to find places to live and work, we in Tokyo are fortunate enough to go about our daily ways.

Handwriting suffers from what experts in the psychology of note-taking – yes, such people exist – call "low transcription fluency": the need to focus on the process gets in the way of exploring ideas.

So the North Koreans really thought they had it good in that Kim Il Sung took this war-torn country, and brought them food, education and housing, they had universal literacy.

Depend on my care to see that your youth is not blighted, or suffered to pass away in ungenial solitude; and of this be well assured, that if you love me as a father, I love you as a child.

Wild daffodils! After all, one could not stew in one's own juice. The spring came back…'Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn.

But a new study finds that just a few resistant mutants can protect large numbers of normal bacteria that would have been thought to be susceptible to the drug therapy.

A few broad assessments of today's crisis-ridden business world, and what to do about it, seldom go amiss if presented sparingly.

Maybe they will be tortured and withered under the scorching summer sun, leaving a patch of land where the story gets started again on the next Arbor Day.

All around the world, people manage to live peacefully with, near, or among those who in the recent past have killed and brutalized them.

As it turned out, the guests were greeted by rain and slush in the far north, then by a chill and more rain in the Californian desert.

I am speaking now of diffused suffering over a long period such as the war will produce.

They were all you would want in a soldier and proved it on the battlefield by destroying all in their paths.

I like to think of the tree itself:--first the close dry sensation of being wood; then the grinding of the storm; then the slow, delicious ooze of sap.

The Greek people could thus regain a modicum of self-respect, savagely destroyed during the last couple of years.

Fishermen like Captain Abe believe their town’s only economic hope lies in once more embracing the ocean that brought it so much destruction.

The banker and Lucie were taken to an attic, where a haggard, white-haired man sat on a low bench, making shoes, a wreck of a man oblivious of all around him.

But the millions of unexploded land mines in their country will go on shattering lives for decades to come.

For a country whose past is disfigured by slavery, segregation and unequal voting rights, this is a moment to celebrate.

The sisters, desperate to fit into the slipper, mutilate their own feet, cutting off the toes and heels all described in exquisite Germanic detail.