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Months of speculation came to an end on Tuesday afternoon as Japan Airlines (JAL), the country's 59-year-old flagship carrier that once symbolized the strength of Japan Inc., filed for bankruptcy with two of its subsidiaries. Weighted by debts estimated at $25.6 billion (2.3 trillion yen), Japan Airlines Corp., Japan Airlines International and JAL Capital made history today as what is perhaps Japan's largest nonfinancial corporate failure. With a long record of unprofitable earnings, the airline has taken a hit from weak travel demand after SARS and H1N1, fuel surcharges and the global recession...
...holiday village where the attack took place, is particularly dangerous. Many of us have seen this picture, taken just off our favorite beach. And if anyone doubted just how deadly these waters can be, on Nov. 15, 2004, a great white made off with Tyna Webb, a 77-year-old widow taking her morning dip. That attack, like the one that killed 37-year-old Zimbabwean Loyd Skinner on Jan. 12, was watched by helpless shark spotters sitting with their binoculars on a mountainside above the beach...
France has earned a reputation for stubborn arrogance in the wine world for boasting of its inimitable terroirs and millennia-old viticultural traditions, while slapping lawsuits on any upstart foreign wine maker who dares to label his tipple champagne or chablis...
...Shiraz-Viognier and Rhôning Stones are also showing up on supermarket shelves around the world, as are Languedoc wines like Bois-Moi ("Drink Me"), Abracadabra Blanc and Petit Bistro Syrah, which has a label depicting a romantic Van Gogh-inspired café scene. (Read "New Wine In Old Vessels...
...there was much suspicion that many of the women in the alleged harem, still in their 20s, had been troubled teenagers who originally went to Ratzon for therapy. In June of 2009, a 24-year-old woman, the daughter of one of Ratzon's "wives," filed a complaint against him with the Tel Aviv police. The mother, who was arrested along with Ratzon, is suspected of introducing her biological daughter, then 14, to the healer for purposes of sex; she is now facing charges of encouraging and failing to report underage sex. Using Clause 375a of a new Israeli...