戦闘任務につく女性たち 粉砕される「真鍮の天井」

Women In Combat: Shattering the “Brass Ceiling” （ TIME ） The Pentagon will declare Thursday that it is lifting a ban on women serving in combat -- a decision essentially rendered a fait accompli by more than decade of war in Afghanistan and Iraq, where many women served ably under fire. Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to make the announcement, based on a rec…

アルジェリア人質事件 謎めいた武装勢力指導者の意図は何か

Algeria’s Hostage Crisis: What Was Behind a Shadowy Militant Leader’s Plot? （ TIME ） A day after Algerian forces launched a military raid to end a deadly hostage crisis at a natural gas plant, confusion reigned on Jan. 18 over the fate of the captives and their Islamist captors. Western leaders, some of whose citizens were among the hostages, expressed frustration at having h…

日本の大島渚監督が80歳で死去する

Japanese Film Director Oshima Dies at 80 （ TIME ） Nagisa Oshima, a Japanese director internationally acclaimed for his films “Empire of Passion” and “In the Realm of the Senses,” has died of pneumonia. He was 80. A former student radical from Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto, Oshima debuted in 1959 with “A Town of Love and Hope,” quickly earning a reputation of a “new …

インドはどのようにポリオと戦い、勝ったのか

How India Fought Polio -- and Won （ TIME ） A few days ago, Ramesh Ferris took his first ride on a motorbike. Born in India and raised in Canada, Ferris made the journey into rural India to meet Ruksa Khatun, the 3-year-old girl who is the last child in India known to have contracted polio. This weekend, as the nation quietly marked two years without a single infection by the wi…

中国の一人っ子政策 「小皇帝」の呪い

China’s One-Child Policy: Curse of the ‘Little Emperors’ （ TIME ） China is a colossal country and, as befits such a global powerhouse, it has made some colossal mistakes. Take its infamous one-child policy, implemented in 1979 and condemned from that day forward. A new study released in Science makes it clear just how misguided the idea was. Initially, the policy seemed to …