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...official Japanese Meteorological Agency, which bases its forecasts on a databank of more than three decades of climate statistics, confidently predicted that the model tree in Tokyo - located in the Yasukuni Shrine, the Shinto place of worship better known for the controversy over its enshrinement of Japan's war dead - would begin to blossom on March 18. But that forecast had to be hastily revised last week, when officials discovered that a computer glitch had thrown off the prediction. As programming errors go, this was just slightly less catastrophic than the NASA mistake that caused the $125 million Mars Climate...
...twist. A Scottish Member of Parliament, Angus Robertson, asked Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to protect Scotland's heritage, and Diageo agreed to change the color of its bottle. Sales of single-malt whisky continue to rise worldwide, though the overall market is relatively flat, according to Impact Databank. In the U.S., single-malt sales have more than doubled in a decade. It's a tribute to Diageo's marketing. Will other single-malt brands run dry? Says Frank Walters, Impact's research director: "I don't see that happening...
...early next year. During Japan's late-1980s bubble, schacho (CEOs) flooded the links, paying up to $1 million for a membership. Today a membership costs about $22,500. In the past three years nearly 200 of Japan's 2,400 golf courses have declared bankruptcy, according to Teikoku Databank, a credit-research agency. "Goldman is buying these distressed properties at a great discount," says Joel Gomberg, an analyst at William Blair & Co. "There's great value potential here; it's a savvy move." Among Accordia's tactics to lure people to the game--which many Japanese have played within...
...that invaluable position in which she becomes privy to everyone’s most scandalous indiscretions. It’s like being the lens of Fifteen Minutes’ famous debauchery-seeking camera—only this naughty evidence is easily filed away into Dartboard’s mental databank of party-fouls...
...Post reported that the blood was taken in order to create a genetic databank for further scientific...