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Obsessed with 'ugly' women

When I read the news item in early November about the three men in Tottori Prefecture whose mysterious deaths were linked to a woman already under arrest for fraud, I associated them with the similarly mysterious deaths of...

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Japan maintains super-low interest rates

Japan's central bank left its super-low interest rates unchanged on Friday as the government declared for the first time in more than three years that Asia's biggest economy is in a phase of deflation.

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AAPA 09: ANA urges Japan govt to create fairer, more equitable market

All Nippon Airways has urged the Japanese government to create a fairer market and relax some regulations to help the country's airline industry. Rival Japan Airlines (JAL) is seeking a bail out from the Japanese government...

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Drucker@100

Although he described himself as a "social ecologist," Peter Drucker, who was born 100 years ago this month, is more commonly remembered as the ultimate management guru, a prolific writer and thinker whose insights into...

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Interviews Semi-Automatic Vending Machine @ Art Basel Miami

Photos courtesy of Interview Magazine Ive never really been tempted to go to Art Basel at Miami Beach but I might need to take a trip there this year. Why? Read on. Interview Magazine is hosting Art...

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What lies behind the eccentric?

The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel wrote that what is "familiarly known" is not "properly known," just for the reason that it is familiar. The familiar historical image of the Edo... Read more . . .

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Schumpeter: Remembering Drucker

Four years after his death, Peter Drucker remains the king of the management gurus IN THE normal run of things the management world is divided into dozens of mutually suspicious tribes—theoreticians versus practitioners,...

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Metabolic Remodeling Induced by Mitochondrial Aldehyde Stress Stimulates Tolerance to Oxidative...

Rationale : Aldehyde accumulation is regarded as a pathognomonic feature of oxidative stress–associated cardiovascular disease. Objective : We investigated how the heart compensates for the accelerated accumulation of...

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Genome-wide association study identifies common variants at four loci as genetic risk factors for...

Nat Genet. 2009 Nov 15; Satake W, Nakabayashi Y, Mizuta I, Hirota Y, Ito C, Kubo M, Kawaguchi T, Tsunoda T, Watanabe M, Takeda A, Tomiyama H, Nakashima K, Hasegawa K, Obata F, Yoshikawa T, Kawakami H, Sakoda S, Yamamoto M,...

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Ready to Feel the Paranormal Effect?

Simius Films unveiled details and a teaser trailer for their first production, a little movie called Paranormal Effect which sheds a bit of light on one of Japan's most infamous curses. Of course it's a found footage flick...

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