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To: Gottfried who wrote (11181)	12/19/2001 10:50:57 AM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23153

OT: Japan Apropos of an earlier discussion about Japan, today's WSJ has a front page left hand column story about Japan's coming Lost Generation, high school graduates who end up working part time jobs as "freeters" (a combination of "free" and "arbeiters [temporary workers, from the German "arbeit," which the Japanese and Koreans use for temporary, after school kind of work; tutoring math, for example, is quintessential "arbeit"]. In any event, maybe someone with electronic access can cut and paste a bit of it here. Middle paragraph profiles Islamadin, a taxi driver who became a burkha entrepreneur during the Taliban era, now looking to a future in the glassware business. Kb