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...fish story you will never forget, try as you might, is Junji Ito's "Gyo" (Viz; 200 pp.; $12.95). Ito specializes in horror comix, a genre virtually wiped out in America since EC comics had to stop publishing "Tales from the Crypt" and its sister titles in the early 1950s. Ito's chilling stories have some of the oddest premises in the genre. "Uzumaki," published in the U.S. by Viz in 2002, featured a town visited by a plague of spirals. "Gyo" starts out with Tadashi and his girlfriend Kaori on vacation at the coastal city of Okinawa...
...anyone who has spent time in Asia, where rows of bottled, unsweetened teas line store fridges, the stuff sold in U.S. supermarkets can taste like pancake syrup. But enlightenment has arrived in the form of Teas' Tea, a line of unsweetened green teas from Ito En. Its six flavors are brewed from loose leaves and bottled in Japan (check itoen.com to purchase). Taste testers at TIME liked the "popcorn" flavor of Hoji and delicate Pure Green, though the utter lack of sugar startled some palates. Tea is hot these days: sales doubled between 1990 and last year, to $5.3 billion...
...Amazing Screw-On Head," by Mike Mignola is a delightfully goofball one-shot about an animate doll's head that gets called upon to save the world. It was nominated for best humor publication. In a completely different vein, Junji Ito's "Uzumaki," an English-translated series of fat Japanese manga books, is a really interesting horror comic about a town whose residents suddenly discover their lives are plagued by spiral shapes. Their bodies twist into snail shells and those who try to leave get returned back again. On the more serious side it was a great pleasure to find...
Harvard extended its lead to 3-0 when Codini took a Gardner feed and skipped a shot off the water and ito the bottom right corner of the goal...
...persistent cleanup efforts, many observers believe nationalization is a foregone conclusion for the weakest banks. "I don't see any way out," says Mitsuhiro Fukao, a professor of economics at Keio University, Tokyo, and reportedly a candidate to become governor of the Bank of Japan in March. Says Takatoshi Ito, a former Finance Ministry official and fellow contender for the Bank of Japan job: "This has been going on for some time, but the momentum for crisis is building." A turning point in Japan's intractable financial mess may, for better or worse, finally be at hand...