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...Hiromu Nonaka went to work for the sales department of the Osaka railway. The man who may become Japan's next Prime Minister impressed his bosses so much that they made him a supervisor. Then one night Nonaka overheard a worker say something so upsetting that he quit his job. Bitter and determined, he returned to his hometown of Sonobe, where he ran for a seat on the town council, beginning a remarkable political career that has taken him to the inner circle of Japan's political Elite. What had the worker said? "Nonaka-san is flying high in Osaka...
...that they have driven down the share price of all three homegrown portals, as well as that of Hong Kong's Chinadotcom, to below the cash value of their assets. Unable to stand the downward spiral any longer, Helen He, chief financial officer at Netease for 18 months, recently quit. "It tarnishes your spirit," says the former investment banker. Joseph Chen, one of Sohu's top guns, has left China altogether to find a new future in Plano, Texas. "Plano is one of the most exciting places in the U.S.," he says, without irony, via phone from the Plano Holiday...
...theories, but few real answers. Some blame the leviathan that is America's tobacco industry, whose advertising and marketing resources make any public health efforts pale in comparison. Others blame women's biological susceptibility to nicotine's addictive qualities, which may make it more difficult for a woman to quit smoking than a man. Still others point to a culture obsessed with thinness, even at the expense of health; women who try to quit smoking often gain weight as a result of both increased eating and a diminished metabolism...
...point, to get them to your dinner table. So it's certainly making people think about what and how they eat. For the farming communities, the trauma has been the deepest. They're paralyzed, depressed. Suicides are up. By some estimates, almost one third of all livestock farmers will quit after this. Farmers are a tiny proportion of the British population, but England feels very connected to the land in a kind of vestigial sense. So the impact of this crisis on the land has a psychological impact on people way beyond the farming communities. It's awful...
...ShippingSupply.com now does a brisk business in bubble wrap, mailers, shipping tubes and plastic-foam peanuts. It has expanded twice and currently occupies 7,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space. Young has a staff of eight, including her husband, who quit...