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On July 28, 1945, Japanese Premier Suzuki received a demand from The United States to surrender after a long and drawn out war in the pacific– or suffer what would become the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  When he spoke to the press on that day, Suzuki used the word “mokusatsu” in his official response to the Allied forces. There is not a counterpart to that word in English, and it is even ambiguous in Japanese. There are theories that the Japanese were tricked by their own… Continue

The average dentist in the United States, over 40 yrs. old, saved about $28,205 per year for retirement in 2010. True or False?  Keep your answer to yourself, no looking at your neighbor’s paper, and keep your eyes up front. We’ll come back to the quiz in a minute.

The retirement planners of the previous generation often used the analogy of the reliable “three legged…

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