Economist, Aug 11, 2012

choi

(1) Higher education in California | One State, Two Systems; As public universities struggle, some private ones thrive
http://www.economist.com/node/21560290

(2) Demography | Virility Symbols; American fertility is now lower than that of France
http://www.economist.com/node/21560266
(for both 2010 and 2011, the total fertility rate (TFR) of France and US were 2.0 and 1.93, respectively)

(3) Japan and the world’s troubled eels | Slip-Sliding Away; A summer mainstay comes under threat
http://www.economist.com/node/21560303
("Japan consumes seven-tenths of the global eel catch * * * Eels spawn only once in a lifetime, in a complex and still little-understood cycle

Note:
(a) The article is translated into Chinese:
鳗鱼悄悄溜走. Economist, Aug 11, 2012.
http://www.ecocn.org/thread-75120-1-1.html
(b) natsu-bate 夏ばて【なつばて】 (n,v): "suffering from summer heat; summer heat fatigue"

* natsu 夏 【なつ】 (n)

Jim Breen's online Japanese dictionary.
(c) Unatetsu  元祖　うな鐡
http://www.unatetsu.com/

* unagi 鰻 【うなぎ】 (n): "eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)"
(d) elver (n; alteration of eelfare migration of eels):
"a young eel; specifically: a small immature catadromous eel chiefly of fresh and brackish water"
www.m-w.com

* eel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel
(section 4 Commercial species: American eel, European eel, Japanese eel)
* Anguilla japonica; Species Fact Sheets. UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), undated.
http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/2988/en
(section "Habit and Biology")


(4) Manufacturing in India | The Masala Mittelstand; Manufacturing is taking off in India. But not in the way many hoped
http://www.economist.com/node/21560263

My comment:
(a) Only view the graphic, where agriculture presumably makes up the rest.
(b) masala
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masala