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...secret from inquiring acquaintances since the conclusion of filming in December. In the show’s final installment, “Team Hippie”—as co-stars and fans tagged Averell and Macniven for their bohemian outfits and lighthearted attitude—traveled from Japan to Alaska, where they raced to drill ice-fishing holes, and finally arrived in Denver, Colo., where they had to arrange a set of national flags in the order in which they had visited the countries. On Wednesday night, Betty Averell joined her son, all his fellow contestants...
According to a study conducted by Dr. Hajime Kimata, from the Unitika Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, 30 minutes of kissing can dramatically reduce the allergic reaction to pollen. Twenty-four men and women with hay fever were told to kiss their partners for half an hour. Before and after the experiment, blood samples were taken to test the levels of immunoglobulin E (IgE), which triggers symptoms of asthma and hay fever by releasing histamine into the blood. Kimata suggests that the significant drop in IgE levels could be attributed to the relaxation induced by kissing...
With a series of crackdowns on stock manipulation, fraud and other forms of malfeasance, Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has gotten tougher on corporate crime. But its latest ruling is a jaw-dropper: on May 10, the FSA announced it was suspending most operations at ChuoAoyama Pricewaterhouse Coopers, one of Japan's largest auditing firms, for two months, due to its failure to prevent accounting fraud at client company Kanebo, a textile and cosmetics firm since broken up in a government-led restructuring...
...come on so hard? Although Japan's accounting system has long been criticized as among the industrialized world's most opaque, regulators have been trying to develop what Goldstein calls "an equity culture" to encourage individual and foreign investment. That means sending a strong signal that accounting malpractice won't be tolerated...
...event. In France, Nike's "Tour de Foot" caravan brought free clinics to some 50,000 kids around the country, and the company set up a 70,000-sq.-ft. interactive "Nikepark" in northwest Paris. British Marketer OMD found that after the '02 World Cup in South Korea and Japan, more British consumers thought Nike was the official sponsor than thought Adidas was. "You've got to admire Nike," says Bliss, now president of Javelin Group, a sports-marketing firm in Alexandria, Va. "They're very creative, and they know what works...