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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Stephen Hesse</title>
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		<title>One former student&#8217;s inspiring path to success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Midori Paxton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeing fewer years ahead and more behind me as a teacher, I often think back over the students who have passed through my classrooms and wonder how many will truly make a difference in the world.]]></description>
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		<title>Take a deep breath of everyone else&#8217;s air and pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 09:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it was due to the fever of impending flu, or the arctic winds rattling our Tokyo home, but recent media photos of Beijing&#8217;s thick smog suddenly brought to mind thoughts of the late U.S. president, John F. Kennedy. On June 26, 1963, Kennedy delivered his most famous Cold War speech to reassure the people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyu Asakura&#8217;s garden of wealth and privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking personally, though likely for many readers, one of the nice things about living in the modern age is that many of the homes and estates of the wealthy and privileged have been opened to folk from the lower orders, meaning we can now freely clod-hop through their elegant drawing rooms and gawp at their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to care for the children when we&#8217;re at odds with the planet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps this column should begin with a disclaimer like those found on CDs and DVDs that are intended to help protect kids from obscenity &#8212; Parental Advisory: Explicit Content. I wonder about this because it might not be healthy for our children to know how little their society cares about them &#8212; let alone the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian scientist uses math to green Japanese baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Hoshino is a tall, slim mathematician, as tightly wound as a precision timepiece, and irrepressibly polite and cheerful. He also has a hard time taking &#8220;no&#8221; for an answer. Eager to share his love of math and its practical applications, Hoshino is committed to helping solve real-world environmental problems using mathematics &#8212; for example, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Fresh Currents&#8217; charts the way to, and from, Fukushima</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s column is about a book that is very much more than just a book: It is a work of art, a labor of love and a realizable dream of a better future for Japan. But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself &#8230; A fortnight ago, on Oct. 12, Tokyo Electric Power Company&#8217;s internal-reform task [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s nuclear phaseout: Is it all smoke and mirrors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 14, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda&#8217;s administration announced that Japan would end nuclear-power generation by 2040. Five days later his Cabinet failed to endorse the new policy; but on the same day, Sept. 19, Trade Minister Yukio Edano insisted that the government would still act &#8220;based on&#8221; the plan. Confused? Here in Japan it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If we ruin the air, what will our children breathe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the sun set into the Pacific Ocean from a hotel tucked in among the dry scrub hills of San Diego, I have a chance to reflect on life here in Southern California, on climate changes and on what&#8217;s in store for future generations. I&#8217;m here with a group of 22 Japanese university students who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Rio+20 the way the world ends &#8212; with a whimper?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, more than 45,000 people descended on Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Coming 20 years after the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development held there in 1992 (which was generally referred to as the Rio Earth Summit), Rio+20 &#8212; as the event held from June 20-22 is known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s none so blind as those who deny they cannot see</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hesse</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Buddhism teaches that all human suffering is rooted in greed, anger and ignorance. Whether true or not, it is clear that related human failings are compromising our planet: our material greed, our ignorance of natural systems, and most of all, our dogged denial. Certainly these three factors share in the blame for Japan&#8217;s decision, on [...]]]></description>
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