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Adult readers intrigued by the influx of Asian comix, but discouraged by the lack of fare that appeals to anyone over 15, got some good news recently: Late last year, two different North American publishers released a pair of strikingly similar books from Japan and South Korea whose style will radically alter many Americans' view of Asian comix. Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man and Other Stories (Drawn & Quarterly; 202 pages; $20) and Seyong O's Buja's Diary (NBM; 280 pages; $20) belong in the library of anyone with an interest in the culture and arts of Asia...
...Japanese can afford to become shareholders. If you had bought a single share of Livedoor in early 2003, it would have multipied into 10,000 shares today. The stock became hugely popular-even schoolchildren became stockholders. And since Horie retained a 17% stake in his company, the cash influx from the horde of new but small investors made him even richer on paper...
BOWLED OVER BY RICE Brown is usually about as wild as Americans get when it comes to rice, but prepare for an influx of more exotically colored grains like buttery Himalayan and Bhutanese red. There's also the Forbidden, a black varietal from China, and herby green Bamboo...
Although the value of diamonds dipped in the early 1980s owing to what Graff calls an influx of ?bad buyers??pension and investment funds that were buying diamonds as a commodity or an investment as opposed to buying them the way he does, as unique treasures to be coveted. ?They just stockpiled them away,? says Graff. ?They had no interest in them as stones to be treasured and loved and worn...
...against the anopheles mosquito and the malaria parasite it carries. Eradicated in North America 50 years ago, the disease continues to plague the developing world, killing an estimated 1 million people a year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. But there were several promising developments in 2005, including a huge influx of research money from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a pilot project to contain the disease in one African country (see "Zambia"). The best news may be the results of a study of the experimental vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline called RTS,S. In a test conducted in Mozambique...