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Japan Chucks in Its Clogs It's difficult to imagine how an amusement park built around windmills and giant wooden shoes could fail, but last week Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, became the country's third largest bankruptcy this year, with liabilities of $1.95 billion. With unemployment at record highs, people in the world's second-biggest economy are in no mood to play; indeed, the once-booming leisure industry is also responsible for the country's two largest bankruptcies. The fall of Huis Ten Bosch is most significant because it highlights Japan's banking...
...another 32% are "investigating" a transfer of their factories. Tens of thousands of production jobs have already migrated from Germany to Central European countries like the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, making everything from light bulbs to high-end Audi automobiles. Last month, for example, German auto-parts maker Bosch said it would eliminate 830 jobs at its factory in Hildesheim, Germany, and move production to a new plant in Miskolc, Hungary. The move will reduce the workforce at the German factory by almost half. Some executives are thinking about even more radical moves, such as transferring not just their...
...door of a crypt nauseated me. We are, I thought, the wasps and I, the only quick creatures in all these acres of graves, and they are moribund. The dying wasps were too obvious a reflection on mortality, as obscene as the contorted bodies in a painting by Hieronymous Bosch. I didn’t turn back; instead, frightened into solemnity, I walked on with the self-conscious gravity of a miscast Christmas pageant Madonna. And after a while, climbing the ridges and looking into the effaced faces of all those grieving angels, I thought: Death is not so fearsome...
...terrorism: bodies with legs and heads and breasts blown off, roasted skin peeling away from arms, daughters crying for their mothers, mothers desperate to find their kids, a place that only two weeks ago was a byword for beauty, friendliness and fun turned into a scene from Hieronymus Bosch. "Why Bali?" asked Fielder. The only answer is another question: Why anywhere...
...That’s the best you can get?”, “That’s pathetic!” or “How original!” are frequently accompanied by a roll of the eyes. Referring to the former anagram master Bosch, Daniels chides Eisenkraft, “Daniel wouldn’t allow that!” to which Eisenkraft sneers, “Well, Daniel’s not here...