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have said will never recover.
• With television cameras clustered outside the hospital, the family maintained a vigil as the deadline approached.
• When Winkfield heard of the judge's decision to push back the deadline, she wept and hugged relatives outside the hospital.
• "Who wants to know the date and the time their child would die?" Winkfield said. "I don't care what anyone has to say about what I'm doing. ... I have to do what is right for me and for Jahi."
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Despite Japan's push for workplace equality, women still underemployed, snubbed for promotions
• TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants women like Tomo Tamai to go back to work.
• Tamai is eager to do so, nearly two years after her first child was born, but so far the 35-year-old former national government employee has only been able to find an internship.
• Abe, who took office a year ago, has made the advancement of women a pillar of his economic revival policies in the most aggressive and ambitious initiative to back the rise of Japanese women in years. Tamai's struggles show why doubts remain about whether it's enough to overcome entrenched discrimination in the workplace.
• "It is a bunch of flag-waving," said Tamai, who holds a doctorate in literature from Nihon University. "I don't see how he has the vision to realize the goal of helping us, those people struggling to raise a child, working and doing housework."
• The government is beefing up child care. It is encouraging companies to grant three years of maternity leave, or flexible hours during that period. It is also asking publicly held companies to promote women to leadership positions so they hold 30 percent of such posts by 2020.
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Passengers on ship trapped in Antarctic ice to be evacuated by helicopter when weather clears
• SYDNEY (AP) -- Passengers on board a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice for a week are expected to be rescued by helicopter, after three ice (Continued on page 25)
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