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I Pronunciation and Oral Reading Class -Kobe College
Study Guide for Test October 30, 2009 - TEXT - AUDIO
Study Sheet and Audio for Test July 3, 2009 - TEXT - AUDIO
Study Sheet for Pronunciation Test June 5, 2009TEXT - AUDIO
Thank you very much - Room Service TEXT - AUDIO
Script: Ally McBeal, Episode 2 (Denim doesn't smell)
Twas the Night Before Christmas TEXTAUDIO
One Week Lyrics - Bare Naked Ladies
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (3 MB MP3 file)
Who's on First - Abbot & Costello YouTube Video - Script
What kind of American accent to you have?
Practical Pronunciation Practice Dialogs - Fall 2008 - TEXT - AUDIO
Halloween Story "Down by the River" - TEXT - AUDIO
My Fair Lady - Day One
My Fair Lady - Day Two
My Fair Lady - Class Material
My Fair Lady - Audio file - preparation for December test (1.5 MB mp3)
II Topics Classes and Intercultural Communication Class - Kobe College,Kobe University, Osaka University, Kobe Shoin English Island
Working vs. Stay-at-home Mothers (Atlantic)
Chinese language (Wired)
Overpopulation (LA Times)
Red States, Blue States
Stories from Japanese Students Abroad: US Media (Japan Times)
Gay Marriage (Atlantic)
Gay Marriage (ELF)
Columbia and Abortion (New York Times)
Columbia and Abortion, Part 2 (New York Times)
Abortion Rates in the U.S. and Australia
Being Too Nice (Seattle Post)
High Paying Jobs (Monster)
White Bean Diet (Japan Times)
Student Cell Phones (New York Times)
Ozone Layer (Japan Times)
Immigration, Racism, Xenophobia (Chicago Tribune)
History of Immigration in Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
The Immigration Debate (New York Times)
Optimism among Hispanic Immigrants (PEW)
Old and alone (New York Times)
The future of print newspapers (Japan Times)
Dating Exes (New York Times)
Depression (Japan Times)
Whaling a Disgrace (The Australian)
"World" Cup? (Pew Research)
Windmills: Clean Energy (Japan Times)
New organs: cloning (CNN)
Fear and Truth Behind Cloning (Wired)
Blue-eyed Salaryman (Japan Times)
Japan's Declining Birth Rate (Japan Times)
The Japanese Male (Japan Times)
Rising Child Abuse in Japan (Reuters)
Addicted to the Internet (Chicago Tribune)
Net Neutrality (Chicago Tribune)
Japanese taste? (Japan Times)
U.S. Diversity (New York Times)
Google now a verb (LA Times)
So Big and Healthy: ARTICLEGRAPH (New York Times)
Difficult Japanese (Japan Times)
Voice of America for English Learners (New York Times) (Voice of America direct link)
Hot Dog Eating Champ (Japan Times)
Global Impact of Consumerism (Japan Times)
V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N (New York Times)
Male Gropees (Japan Times)
Not Ready for College (New York Times)
Avoid Danger (Japan Times)
Choosing Babies' Genders (Japan Times)
Embryo Culling (New York Times)
Impotent Generation? (Japan Times)
Roots of Muslim Rage (Atlantic) Difficult, but highly recommended
What is Japan? (Japan Times)
Permanent Residency in Japan (Japan Times)
Japan Crime and Nationality (Japan Reference)
Clonal Man (Atlantic) Difficult
The Changing Sento (Japan Times)
Surrogate Mother (Japan Times)
Being a Father in Japan (Japan Times)
Commuting in Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
Buried Secrets in Tokyo (Japan Times)
Anorexia (Japan Times)
Here's the Beef (Japan Times)
Clonal Man (Atlantic) Difficult
Japan's New Divorce Law (Japan Times)
Teenage Moms ((Japan Times)
Japanese Abroad: The Paris Syndrome (Japan Times)
Gender Change (Japan Times)
Nationalism in Japan (Japan Times)
Working Hard - Or Hardly Working?
The Vice-President's Lesbian Daughter (New York Times)
The Human Lightning Rod (The Straight Dope)
Peggy? (The Straight Dope)
Pets in New York (New York Times)
Dying in Japan (Japan Times)
Headhunting Japanese Workers in the US (Japan Times)
The New Family (New York Times)
Eggs for Sale - Cloning (Chicago Tribune)
Personal Space
Growing Up in England
Racism in Japan (Japan Times)
The Lazy Generation? (Japan Times)
English the Language of Finance (Japan Times)
Japanese Not Going Down...Under (Japan Times)
Bilingual Babies
Japan's Lost Dreams (Japan Times)
Learning to use Hashi(Sydney Herald)
Death Penalty Debate (New York Times)
Death by Mochi (Japan Times)
More Foreign Residents in Japan (Japan Times)
Coming Changes to Japan's Workplace (Japan Times)
American Tradition of Immigration (New York Times)
International Stress (Chicago Tribune)
Battered Husbands (Japan Times)
The Average American (New York Times) .zip file
The Married Minority (New York Times)
Hiki's Divorce (Japan Times)
Too much information (Chicago Tribune)
Rewriting History (Japan Times)
The Wikipedia Story (Japan Times)
Necessity of English for Japan (Japan Times)
Man or Monkey? (Japan Times)
Computers and Productivity (New York Times)
Horie: Guilty of being different? (Houston Chronicle)
No Sex, No Babies (Time)
Child Abuse in Japan (Japan Times)
Japan's Conscience on Comfort Women (Chosun Ilbo)
Irony of Abductee Issue (Seattle Times)
How to Become a Philosopher (WikiHow)
How to Prepare for a Date (WikiHow)
Abortion in Mexico (New York Times)
Education in China (new York Times)
Rewriting History (New York Times)
Being a Vegetarian in Japan (Japan Times)
Working Women with Children in Japan (Japan Times)
How to Learn English (WikiHow)
Working part-time in Japan (Japan Times)
Unwanted babies (Japan Times)
Overtime and karoshi(Japan Times)
Japan's new divorce law (Japan Times)
Stalking (Japan Times)
Chicago vs. Los Angeles (Chicago Sun-Times)
Drinking in Japan (Japan Times)
No Sex in Japan (Mainichi)
Gay Marriage (English Club)
Private Lesson Trouble (Mainichi)
Mass Hysteria (WikiHow)
Earthquakes (Japan Times)
Capital Punishment (Japan Times)
Hot Dog Kobayashi (Japan Times)
Gay Marriage Coming to New York? (New York Times)
Smoking ban in Illinois (Chicago Tribune)
Transgender Homeless (New York Times)
First baby Hatch Drop-off Opens (Japan Times)
Motherhood Today (PEW)
Stalkers, Police, Yakuza (Japan Times)
Dementia (Japan Times)
No to Britain (Japan Times)
Working as a Hostess (Japan Times)
Japan the #1 Car Builder Again (Japan Times)
Abortion and Down's Syndrome (Everything)
Abortion and Down's Syndrome (Washington Post)
Dognapping (Chicago Tribune)
Get a Divorce! (Chicagoist)
Perfect Love (Japan Times)
Beaten Generation (Japan Times)
Getting a Tan (New York Times)
No Smoking (Chicago Tribune)
Transgender Homeless Center (New York Times)
First Baby Hatch (Japan Times)
Motherhood Today (in U.S.) (PEW) (Difficult)
Cicada (蝉) Pizza (Chicago Tribune)
Miss Universe (Japan Times)
Japan's Suicide Rate (Japan Times)
Abused Children (Japan Times)
Whaling (Sydney Herald)
Overstressed Policeman Stabs Self (Japan Times)
Humor (Japan Times)
Shove This Job (Japan Times)
Tatemae (Japan Times)
Death Penalty (PEW)
Gypsies (Straight Dope)
Packed Subways (New York Times)
Eikaiwa Advisory (Japan Times)
Marriage and Family Trends in the U.S. (PEW) (Long, difficult)
Paternity Leave (Japan Times)
Braille in Odd Places (Straight Dope)
Dutch Flex Time (Japan Times)
Dangers of the Internet for Young People(Atlantic)
Potato Chips (New York Times)
Freedom and Independence Day (New York Times)
The World's Biggest Problem (New York Times)
GoKart Papa (Japan Times)
China and Japan War History (International Herald Tribune)
Working Mothers (PEW)
Interaction with non-Japanese (Japan Times)
No Smoking Patrol (Japan Times)
New Kidney (Japan Times)
Nissan Hiring Women(Japan Times)
Triple Amputee Success Story (recommended) (Esquire) ZIP file- DMG file
Egg Donation (New York Times)
Let's Eat Sushi (New York Times)
Babies, Learning Language, and Accents(Chicago Tribune)
Foreigners in Japanese Schools (Japan Times)
Noh Costumes (Japan Times)
Marriage Priorities (PEW)
US Opinions on Gay Marriage (PEW)
Japanese Life Expectancies (Japan Times)
Living Together (Chicago Tribune)
Tap Water (New York Times)
The Working Disabled (Japan Times)
Body Language 1 (WikiHow)
Body Language 2 (WikiHow)
Suicide Warnings (Japan Times)
Men's and Women's Salaries (New York Time sand Chicago Tribune) ZIP file - DMG file
Beer in Japan (Japan Times)
Big Mac (Chicago Tribune)
Parental Child Abduction I (Japan Times)
Parental Child Abduction II(Japan Times)
Increase in Child Abuse (Japan Times)
Overcoming Disabiliy (Esquire) ZIP fileRECOMMENDED
Prosthetic Advances(Japan Times)
Eat Meat! (New York Times)
Who Gets Cosmetic Surgery (New York Times)
Humans, Animals, and Speech (New York Times)
Toilet Technology (Japan Times)
Women Working in Japan ZIP file
Education of WWII War Crimes (Mainichi Daily News)
Flex Vacations at IBM (New York Times)
Gender Gap Costs (Japan Times)
Men's Partner Priorities (Chicago Tribune)
Salaries up in Japan (Japan Times)
Idiot Parents (Japan Times)
Animals and Language(New York Times)
Income Gap (PEW)
Choose your news (PEW)
Choose your news 2 (Journalism.com)
Evolution of morality(New York Times)
Japan's Education Spending (Japan Times)
Staying Married 25 Years(New York Times)
入試 Study? (Japan Times)
Hearing Okinawa (Japan Times)
Protest in Okinawa (Japan Times)
Okinawa's Textbooks (Japan Times)
Perks! (Chicago Tribune)
How to be Cool (WikiHow)
Minamata (Associated Press)
Japanese Wives at Home (Japan Times)
High School Hugs (Chicago Tribune)
Immigration Attitudes (PEW)
Mommy Makeovers(New York Times)
Japan's Magic Apples (Japan Times)
Life Created (Fox News)
Robotic Care for the Elderly (Japan Times)
Surrogate Mom Search (Japan Times)
Abuse of the Aged (Japan Times)
Abuse of the Elderly (Japan Times)
Grow Your Own Cells(New York Times)
Xenophobia (Globe and Mail)
First Kiss (Chicago Tribune)
Homeless in LA (New York Times)
Poverty in Japan (New York Times)
Romance in the Office (New York Times)
How It Feels to Die (New Scientist)
Domestic Abuse (Japan Times)
Safety of Abortions Worldwide (New York Times)
Starving in Japan(Japan Times)
Tokyo Homeless (Japan Times)
Angry Senior Citizens (Japan Times)
Depression (Japan Times)
Okinawa Textbooks (Japan Times)
Vivisectionist (Japan Times)
Overseas Travel Tips (humor) (Japan Times)
Natto (Japan Times)
Groper Defense (Japan Times)
Gender Gap in Japan (Japan News)
DNA and Prejudice (New York Times)
Troubled Students (New York Times)
Women at HomeWomen at Home (Japan Times)
Death Penalty StudyDeath Penalty Study (New York Times)
Amputee SprinterAmputee Sprinter (New York Times)
Clones for Dinner (Wired)
Cloning Humans (CNN)
Stem Cell Breakthrough (Chicago Tribune)
Birth Control (New York Times)
The Emperor's Fish(Chicago Tribune)
Damage from Drinking Alcohol (Chicago Tribune)
Alzheimer's Disease (Chicago Tribune)
Baby's Teeth and Stem Cell Research (Japan Times)
Biofuels Bad for the Earth? (New York Times)
Bad Jobs in Japan (Japan Times)
Moving to kill off capital punishment (Japan Times)
DNR for Children (Chicago Tribune)
Cloned Meat (Wired)
Cloned Food in the US (Wired)
Creating a New Heart(New York Times)
Death by Mochi (Earth Times)
Death Penalty for Child Rape (New York Times)
Death Penalty (PEW)
Dog or Human?(New York Times)
Dog Email (New York Times)
Eating Insects (Compressed ZIP file)
Ebola Virus and DNA (Japan Times)
Abuse of the Elderly (Japan Times)
Stopping Life Support 1 (Japan Times)
Stopping Life Support 2 (Japan Times)
Eternal Youth (Japan Times)
Executions in Japan (Japan Times)
Executions in Japan (CNN)
Facebook Research (New York Times)
First Heart Transplant (Wired)
Gay Bashing (New York Times)
Get Fat! (New York Times)
Gone Geek (New York Times)
Hospice Costs (New York Times)
Human Cloning (New York Times)
I Like Me, er, You (New York Times)
Innovation Timeline (Wired)
Academic Performance in Japan (Japan Times)
Academic Performance in Japan 2 (Japan Times)
Kids on the Web (New York Times)
Creating Life (Chicago Tribune)
Love? No thanks. (PEW)
Office Romance? (New York Times)
Physics Star (New York Times)
Polar Bears (New York Times)
Fish from Polluted Water (New York Times)
Personal Space (ITOD)
Race and Brains (New York Times)
Rebuilding a Man (New York Times)
Religion and Science in the USA (PEW)
Robot Sex (Houston Chronicle)
Safe in New York (Times, UK)
Sexual Harassment (JT)
Surrogate Births (Japan Times)
Teen Kills Family (Japan Times)
Teens and Social Media (PEW)
Testing & Education (Japan Times)
Underwater Robot (Chicago Tribune)
Web in the Sky (New York Times)
What Housework? (Japan Times)
Whistleblowers (New York Times)
Woman Kills Husband (New York Times)
Why Do People Use the Internet? (PEW)
National Grammar Day (Chicago Tribune)
Japanese Universities (Time)
Transgender Students (New York Times)
Modern Moral in the U.S. - (PEW)
Modern Moral in the U.S. - (Japan Times)
Rejecting Vaccines for Children - (New York Times)
Gender Salary Gap in Japan - (Japan Times)
A Nuclear Japan? - (Japan Times)
God and medicine - (Chicago Tribune)
Surgery in India - (Chicago Tribune)
Laughing Dolphins - (Japan Times)
The aliens are coming! - (Japan Times)
Work-Life Balance - (Japan Times)
I'll have the clone - (Japan Times)
Woman-friendly Companies - (Japan Times)
Working in the U.S. - (New York Times)
Language and Thinking - (New York Times)
Education in the U.S. - (New York Times)
Americans in Jail - (New York Times)
Women, Jobs, and Children - (Japan Times)
Starving he Elderly - (Japan Times)
Killing the abuser - (Japan Times)
University rejections - (Chicago Tribune)
Change in Japan - (Japan Times)
Sexual Inequality in Japan (Japan Times)
Kids and Divorce (Chicago Tribune)
No Food in Japan (Japan Times)
Suicide in Japan Today (Salon.com)
Killing the Abuser (Reuters)
New York Sandwiches (New York Times)
Americans' Priorities in Life (PEW)
Immigration March (Chiacgo Tribune)
Genetic Discrimination Bill (San Jose Mercury News)
Two Views on Gay Marriage (PEW)
Housework (New York Times)
Medical Whistle Blower in Japan (Daily Yomiuri)
British UFO Documents (Chicago Tribune)
Wheel Chair Athlete (New York Times)
Social Network Site Annoyances (PC World)
Twenty percent consider suicide in Japan (Japan Times)
Why Study Foreign Languages? (Japan Times)
No Engineers in Japan (New York Times)
Suicide on MySpace (eflux)
Children of Immigrants(New York Times)
Online Love(Chicago Tribune)
Surrogate Births in Japan (Japan Times)
Unregistered Births Unregistered Births in Japan (Japan Times)
Blackmailing the Hentai(Mainichi Daily News)
Spousal Abuse (Save My Marriage)
Quitting Smoking (New York Times)
Fast Food in Beijing (Photo Collection)
New Cosmetic Surgery Technique (Cosmetic Surgery Bible)
Recognizing the Ainu (Japan Times)
Beauty Contest in the Philipines
Gay Marriage in California (New York Times)
Change Your Sex (Japan Times)
Thinking About Divorce (Save My Marriage)
Women and Tech in Holland (Japan Times)
Foreign Care for the Elderly in Japan (Japan Times)
Money and Happiness (Japan Times)
Housework 2008 (New York Times)
Japan's Gender Gap (Canada.com)
Monkey's Robot Arm (New York Times)
Suicide in 2007 (Japan Times)
Older Women and Drug Dependency (New York Times)
Gay Divorce (New York Times)
Butterfly Effect (Boston.com)
Child Abuse 2007 (Japan Times)
Murderer Miyazaki (Japan Times)
The Death Sentence (Japan Times)
Teen Faith Healer (AP)
Global Warming in Japan (Japan Times)
Suicide Among the Elderly (Yomiuri)
Sun and Vitamin D (US News)
Nicotine Addicts (Japan Times)
Street Food (Chicago Tribune)
International Couple (Japan Times)
Latino Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
European Birth Rate (New York Times)
The Cheetah Leg (New York Times)
Gaijin vs. Police (Japan Times)
U.S. and Japan Doctors (Japan Times)
Surrogate Mothers (How Stuff Works)
Animal Rights (Japan Times)
Beef and Methane (Chicago Tribune)
Are you really reading online? (New York Times)
Is dog on the menu? (New York Times)
Elite Kindergartens (New York Times)
Cloned Pit Bull (Chicago Tribune)
Gay and Straight Weddings (Atlantic Monthly)
Sufism and Sodomy (Asia Times)
Fat is Healthy (New York Times)
Cloned Puppies (Wired)
Contemporary Tattoos (Japan Times)
Have Fewer Kids (Chicago Tribune)
Stay At Home Vacation (New York Times)
Ricky Martin Surrogate (Japan Times)
Wife or Mommy - Japanese Marriages (Washington Post)
Free Textbooks (New York Times)
The Handshake (Interesting Thing of the Day)
Mixi-Facebook-Myspace (Tech Crunch)
The Average American (New York Times) (.zip file)
Near Death Experiences
Aya Sugimoto - Fur and Flesh (Japan Times)
Couples at Home (PEW)
MySpace and MIxi in Japan (AP)
Japan's Social Network Sites (International Herald Tribune)
"Japanese Hate Foreigners' (Japan Times)
Intercultural Adoption (Japan Times)
The Average American (New York Times)
SNS Manners (Macworld)
Insect Cuisine (Japan Times)
Price of Tuna (Japan Times)
The Gay Marriage Rush (New York Times)
PETA (Autoweek)
Make Me Beautiful (New York Times)
Cruelty to Farm Animals (New York Times)
Discrimination (Japan Times)
Kazuyoshi Miura Suicide (Japan Times)
Japan's Day Laborers (New York Times)
Telecommunting (Wired)
Parasite Singles 2008 (Japan Times)
Bullying Among Adults (Japan Times)
Building New Body Parts (Wired)
Grandma's Triplets - Surrogacy (Huffington Post)
Japan's CO2 Reality (Yahoo News)
More Babies in Japan (Japan Times)
Being Big in Japan (Japan Times)
Bones Built to Order (AFP)
No More Sushi (The Independent)
Living Longer (Wired)
Cyberchondria (New York Times)
Suicide Online (New York Times)
Cloned from the Stone Age (Slate)
Overpopulation (Japan Times)
Men Taking Care of Their Mothers (New York Times)
Surrogacy 2008 (New York Times) (long)
Sexism in Italy (NPR)
Obama's Shinseki (Yahoo)
Hearing Implants (ITOTD)
Cyberbullying (The Guardian)
The Death of Dating (New York Times)
Assisted Suicide (Mainichi)
Future of the Internet (PEW)
Sentencing Joji Obara (Japan Times)
American Mobility (PEW)
Ability-Enhancing Drugs (New York Times)
Whaling: Activism or Terror (LA Times)
Future of the World (Environment) (Esquire)
Body Tissue Regeneration (Esquire)
Body Tissue Engineering (Esquire)
Good Samaritan Laws (New York Times)
A New Face (Slate)
Cloning Kobe Beef (Japan Times)
Embarrasing PM Aso (Japan Times)
Lost in Translation (Japan Times)
Drug for Long Eyelashes (New York Times)
Kids Safe Online (New York Times)
Househusbands in Japan (Japan Times)
Online Social Networks (PEW)
Burakumin Discrimination (New York Times)
Googling Burakumin Areas (Japan Times)
Thirty Years Old - Born In Vitro (Japan Times)
Clones for Dinner (Japan Times)
Capital Punishment Case in Japan (Japan Times)
Faith vs. Medicine (New York Times)
Bad Milk a Capital Crime? (New York Times)
Stem Cell Therapy (New York Times)
Clean Air (Chicago Tribune)
Facebook in Egypt (New York Times)
Four to the Gallows in Japan (Japan Times)
Blog in Japan: Tofugu (Japan Times)
Advance in Prosthetics (New York Times)
Online Suicide (Japan Times)
Daddy DNA Hacker (Wired)
Artificial Insemination Error (Japan Times)
Women Working at JAL (Japan Times)
Rules for In Vitro Fertilization (Japan Times)
The Right to Die (Chicago Tribune)
US Birth Rate (Chicago Tribune)
Jet Lag (New York Times)
Single Mother Opinions (PEW)
Japan Birth Rate (Japan Times)
Japan's Educational Gap (Japan Times)
Printing Human Tissue (ITOTD)
World Fertility Rates (IMR/CIA)
Gay Thai Monks (BBC)
Are you ready for children? (Superlaugh)
Child-free by Choice (Chicago Tribune) (Difficult)
Best Burger in New York (New York Times)
Save the Frogs - Or Eat Them (Associated Press)
Bras for Men (Japan Times)
Manicures for Men (Japan Times)
Japanese Men Find the Kitchen (Japan Times)
Is My Marriage Gay? - Gender Change After Marriage (New York Times)
Travel or Videoconference? (New York Times)
Lies and Honesty (New York Times)
Computers and Education (Macobserver)
Women Against Women (New York Times)
Japanese Tobacco in Russia (Japan Times)
Harvesting Chidren's Organs (Japan Times)
Organ Donation by Minors (Japan Times)
Taxing Vice (New York Times)
Japan's New Jury System (Japan Times)
Hang 'em High: Mori on Japan's Death Penalty (Japan Times)
Life Expectancy of Japanese Women (Japan Times)
The Singularity (New York Times)
10 Things I Wish My Father Had Taught Me (Asylum)
Organ Transplant Law in Japan (Japan Times)
Reverse Discrimination (Chicago Tribune)
Dressing for Court (Chicago Tribune)
Hugging in Schools (New York Times)
More Hugging in Schools (New York Times)
Abortion Doctor Murdered (New York Times)
Eating Champ Kobayashi - 2009 (Japan Times)
Suicide in Japan (Japan Times)
Suicidal Behavior (New York Times)
Japan's Herbivore Men (CNN)
The Grasseaters: Japan's Generation XX (The Independent)
Give Women Guns (New York Times)
Abortion Controversy (New York Times)
Child Care Bill for Working Parents (Japan Times)
Brain Death (Japan Times)
White Lies (An MP3 ESL-EFL podcast on lying - interesting! Try listening.)
Overworked Foreigners (Japan Times)
Getting Old in America (PEW)
Child-free by Choice (Redeye)
Student Binge Drinking (New York Times)
Japan's Bagelheads (NJCom)
Monkeys Know Their Grammar (BBC)
A Gentle Death: Helping Someone Die (New York Times) Interactive slide show
Whales Watching Us (New York Times)
Assisted Double Suicide (New York Times)
Going to the Moon (Chicago Tribune)
Child Abuse in Japan (Japan Times)
Children Easily Bilingual (AP)
Stories from Japanese Veterans Who Served in China (Japan Times)
Common Fears, Obsessions, Compulsions (Chicago Tribune)
OCD: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Chicago Tribune)
Changing Names and Marriage (Chicago Tribune)
Japan's Smoking Rate 2009 (Japan Times)
Kids and Cell Phones (New York Times)
Women and Internet Startup Businesses (Japan Times)
Honesty and Dishonesty in English (MacMillan)
An Unfit Judge (Death Penalty) (New York Times)
Who Still Smokes and Why? (Chicago Tribune)
Hindu Transvestites (Inquirer)
New Italian Feminism (New York Times)
Homeless Children and School (New York Times)
Telecommuters in Japan (Japan Times)
Birth Order Matters - Older/Younger Siblings (New York Times)
Japan's Death Row (CNN)
暗闇ご飯 - Dark Dinner (Japan Times)
Right to Die for Quadriplegic (News Asia)
Assisted Suicide Guidelines (New York Times)
Soldier Mom (New York Times)
Helping the Blind to See (technology) (New York Times)
Economics of Organ Donation (New York Times)
Gay Teens (New York Times)
Social Network Users (Macworld)
Working Mothers 2009 (PEW)
Fashion Moms (Japan Times)
Child Violence (Chicago Tribune)
Wive's Family Names (Japan Times)
Famous Fake Names (Japan Times)
Faces, Culture & Communication (Japan Times)
21st Century Babies (New York Times)
Abortion Addict (Chicago Tribune)
More 草食系男子 (Japan Times)
Twitter After Sex (Chicago Now)
Civil Unions / Gay Marriage (PEW)
Free Speech on the Net (Chicago Tribune)
eBooks and the Brain (New York Times)
How Social Media is Changing our Lives (Mashable)
Older Women, Younger Men (New York Times)
London Takoyaki (Japan Times)
Abortion in Japan (Japan Times)
Pen vs. Keyboard (Futurity.com)
Online Authoring - New Literacy (Seed Magazine)
eBooks Mean More Reading (New York Times)
Tweeting/Twitter 2009 (PEW)
Witnessing Executions (New York Times)
Presents for Dogs (Washington Post)
Disappearing Tuna (Japan Times)
Death of Newspapers (The Awl)
First Date (New York Times)
The Obama Marriage (New York Times)
Women Fighting Wars - and After (New York Times)
Domestic Violence in Japan (Japan Times)
Technology and the Japanese Language (New York Times)
Smartphone Usage (Retrovo)
Cher's Transgender Child (cherrygirl.com)
Japanese Language (Atlantic)
Tokyo Pets (Japan Times)
Technology and Social Lives (New York Times)
Illinois Abortion Law - Informing Parents (Chicago Tribune)
Using Prisoners' Organs for Experimentation (Japan Times)
How Execution by Electrocution Works (Straight Dope)
Adults Returning to Parents' Home (PEW)
Using DNA to Test Paternity - Not My Baby (New York Times)
Disappearing Tuna (New York Times)
Abuse of the Elderly (Japan Times)
Japan's Graduates - Only 62% Have Jobs (Japan Times)
Treating Criminals (Wired)
Repeat Offenders (Japan Times)
Women at Work - Glass Ceiling (Japan Times)
Korea Baby Boom (New York Times)
Eating 399 Bowls of Soba (Japan Times)
Homeless in Osaka (Japan Times)
Execution and the Mentally Challenged (New York Times)
New Execution Methods (New York Times)
Global Warming (2009) (New York Times)
Obama's Nobel Prize Speech (Yahoo News)
Twenty-first Century Babies (New York Times)
Human Execution? (New York Times)
Capital Punishment (New York Times)
Ibaraki Station Stabber Executed (Japan Times)
Copenhagen Climate Conference (Japan Times)
Organ Donation and Time of Death (New York Times)
A Comfortable Death (New York Times)
The Death of Handwriting (Miller McCune)
Robot Rights (Japan Times)
Homeless in Tokyo (Japan Times)
New York is Safer (See Graphic) (New York Times)
Teens Struggle with Gender Identity (New York Times)
The Written Word (See Graphic) (Wired)
Homicides Down in Chicago (Chicago Tribune)
Living in Tokyo's Capsule Hotels (New York Times)
Seattle's Teriyaki (New York Times)
What is Mental Illness? (New York Times)
Fatherhood and Sex Change in Kobe (Japan Times)
III Internet English - Classes Kobe Shinwa
Addicted to the Internet (Chicago Tribune)
Net Neutrality (Chicago Tribune)
The future of print newspapers (Japan Times)
Student (geek) Power (Chicago Tribune)
Homework Helper (New York Times)
Living with a Computer in 1982 (Atlantic) Difficult
Robots are People, Too (Japan Times)
Gadget Convergence (New York Times)
iPod - Steve Jobs Interview (Newsweek)
Get Invisible (Japan Times)
The Internet and the English Language (New York Times) Difficult
The Web and Japnese Language Study (Japan Times)
Eye Interface - Mouse with your eyes (Japan Times)
Robot Baito(Washington Post)
Virtual Care of the Elderly (New York Times)
Virtual Actors and Actresses (New York Times) .zip file
Horie: Guilty of being different? (Houston Chronicle)
Too much information (Chicago Tribune)
The Wikipedia Story (Japan Times)
Computers and Productivity (New York Times)
Blogs in Japan (Japan Times)
Disconnected! (a) (New York Times)
Disconnected! (b) (Chicago Tribune)
Myspace (Wired)
Who Uses Wikipedia? (PEW)
Tokyo University Speed Record (Japan Times)
Email and Business Correspondence Dangers (Chicago Tribune)
Online Conduct (New York Times)
Mixi vs. MySpace (Japan Times)
Photoshop Me! (New York Times)
Cyberbullying (New York Times)
Facebook (New York Times)
Next Gen Acronyms (New York Times)
Second Life Online(New York Times)
New Language Learning Blog (Japan Times)
Facebook Oldsters (Japan Times)
Internet Hugs (Chicago Tribune)
Educational iPods (New York Times)
Life Created (Fox News)
Grow Your Own Cells(New York Times)
Robot Massage (Japan Times)
Parents and Teen Tech (PEW)
Internet Bullying (Japan Times)
MIXI (Chicago Tribune)
The Changing PC (Japan Times)
Obsessed with the Web (New York Times)
Blogging (Japan Times)
Second Life & Japanese Companies (Japan Times)
Amputee SprinterAmputee Sprinter (New York Times)
Clones for Dinner (Wired)
Cloning Humans (CNN)
Stem Cell Breakthrough (Chicago Tribune)
I'll have the clone - (Japan Times)
Idiot users - (New York Times)
The Net Safe for Kids? - (New York Times)
Kids and Tech - (New York Times)
Man and machine interface - (New York Times)
Social Network Site Annoyances (PC World)
No Engineers in Japan (New York Times)
Suicide on MySpace (eflux)
Online Love(Chicago Tribune)
Women and Tech in Holland (Japan Times)
Monkey's Robot Arm (New York Times)
MySpace and MIxi in Japan (AP)
Japan's Social Network Sites (International Herald Tribune)
Mixi-Facebook-Myspace (Tech Crunch)
Cloned Puppies (Wired)
Cloned Pit Bull (Chicago Tribune)
Are you really reading online? (New York Times)
Body Tissue Regeneration (Esquire)
Body Tissue Engineering (Esquire)
Ability-Enhancing Drugs (New York Times)
Telecommunting (Wired)
Bones Built to Order (AFP)
Living Longer (Wired)
Cyberchondria (New York Times)
Suicide Online (New York Times)
Cloned from the Stone Age (Slate)
Hearing Implants (ITOTD)
Cyberbullying (The Guardian)
Drug for Long Eyelashes (New York Times)
Blog in Japan: Tofugu (Japan Times)
Advance in Prosthetics (New York Times)
Online Suicide (Japan Times)
Daddy DNA Hacker (Wired)
Artificial Insemination Error (Japan Times)
Women Working at JAL (Japan Times)
Rules for In Vitro Fertilization (Japan Times)
Jet Lag (New York Times)
Printing Human Tissue (ITOTD)
Kids Safe Online (New York Times)
Online Social Networks (PEW)
Thirty Years Old - Born In Vitro (Japan Times)
Clones for Dinner (Japan Times)
Faith vs. Medicine (New York Times)
Stem Cell Therapy (New York Times)
Facebook in Egypt (New York Times)
Travel or Videoconference? (New York Times)
Computers and Education (Macobserver)
The Singularity (New York Times)
Kids and Cell Phones (New York Times)
Women and Internet Startup Businesses (Japan Times)
Kids and Cell Phones (New York Times)
Telecommuters in Japan (Japan Times)
Helping the Blind to See (technology) (New York Times)
21st Century Babies (New York Times)
Twitter After Sex (Chicago Now)
Free Speech on the Net (Chicago Tribune)
eBooks and the Brain (New York Times)
How Social Media is Changing our Lives (Mashable)
Pen vs. Keyboard (Futurity.com)
Online Authoring - New Literacy (Seed Magazine)
eBooks Mean More Reading (New York Times)
Tweeting/Twitter 2009 (PEW)
Technology and Social Lives (New York Times)
Technology and the Japanese Language (New York Times)
Smartphone Usage (Retrovo)
Korea Baby Boom (New York Times)
A Chip in your Brain (Read Write Web)
Google and Yahoo in Japan (New York Times)
Execution and the Mentally Challenged (New York Times)
Suicide and Depression (New York Times)
Homeless in Osaka (Japan Times)
Twenty-first Century Babies (New York Times)
Organ Donation and Time of Death (New York Times)
Robot Rights (Japan Times)
The Written Word (See Graphic) (Wired)
IV Writing Classes - Kobe College, Osaka University, Kobe Shoin
Example of a Bad Essay(translated from Japanese) (Japan Times)
Example of a Bad Essay - includes my notes and explanation
Business Correspondence Examples - 700 KB .zip file
Dangers of Business Email Correspondence (Chicago Tribune)
Student Essay - Unusual Case (Chicago Tribune)
Writing and Word Processing Tips(mac.efficiency)
V Crossword Puzzles - Kobe College, Kobe Shinwa, Osaka University, Kobe Shoin
English Firsthand - Units 1 and 2
Interchange 3 -Unit 1
Interchange 3 - Unit 2
Interchange 3 - Unit 4
Interchange 3 - Unit 5
Impact Issues - Units 1 and 2
Impact Values - Units 1 and 2
Let's Go - Units 1 and 2
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