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When Natasha Steele arrived in Japan from her native Australia earlier this year, the 26-year-old was looking forward to immersing herself in a foreign culture while preparing for a teaching career back home. She had joined Nova, Japan's largest chain of English-language schools, through its Sydney recruiting office, and was enjoying teaching her class full of rowdy kids. But in one of Japan's highest-profile corporate collapses in years, Nova announced on Oct. 26 that it would shutter its classrooms, locking out some 300,000 students and leaving 4,000 foreign teachers jobless, threatened with...
...Nova, started by CEO Nozomu Sahashi in 1981, grew into a publicly listed chain with over 900 locations at its peak, dominating Japan's $1.7 billion foreign-language-education industry through discount lesson offers and a sassy, ubiquitous ad campaign. In 2006, as many as two-thirds of Japan's foreign-language students were enrolled at Nova. But things started to unravel for the company in April, after the Supreme Court ruled that its prepaid tuition scheme, under which students bought thousands of dollars in lessons up front and received only partial refunds in the event of cancellations, was illegal...
...Through Judaism, I learned that I could be something other than a self-interested individual, that I could be a member of a community, a link in a chain that went from family to clan to village,” Marglin said...
...major Balkan war-crimes trials to be heard by the Hague Tribunal, but it is also unique for other reasons: Unlike the rest of the politicians and military commanders indicted by the Tribunal, Seselj is not accused of physically hurting anybody, or of being part of a chain of command that ordered mass murder and other abuses. Instead, the politician whose trial began Wednesday is accuse of inciting war crimes by churning out inflammatory speeches and disseminating "poisonous ideas...
...some parts of the world, primates are dinner for big cats. In others, they lend a hand to the local flora by eating plants and dribbling seeds around. Primates are certainly crucial to the global food chain, but as Nadler says, it's hard to know what would happen to the larger environment if a few lemur species on Madagascar died off tomorrow - and it's a question that scientists have been working for decades to avoid having to answer. In the last 50 years, only a few primates have been lost to extinction, but some worry the worst...