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BARNSTABLE, MASS.—Most postcards sent from my hometown feature John F. Kennedy ’40 squinting into the sun, haloed by a swath of sail, or sand dunes tumbling toward the water, girdled by a snow fence or bearded men in sou’westers clutching lobsters that are the over-enthusiastic red of Chinese takeout spareribs. Here on the biceps of Cape Cod, where much of the year-round population of 48,000 devotes itself to fleecing summer visitors, there is money to be made in the picturesque...
...colder months, Nagano prefecture--site of the 1998 Winter Olympics--offers the delightful contrast of piping-hot springs amid snow. Two hours west of Tokyo lie the vast Lake Suwa and the onsen town of Kamisuwa. At Saginoyu saginoyu.com) a historic inn, some of the grandest rooms offer private rotenburo, round cedar tubs overlooking the lake. But don't miss the communal onsen on the ground floor, where the rotenburo are shielded by tile roofs from which icicles hang in winter. In spring, cherry blossoms provide a pink feast for fatigued bathers' eyes...
Today, Nagasaki offers a respite for travelers exhausted by Tokyo's frenetic chaos. The city is located on Kyushu, Japan's pristine southernmost island where snow-capped volcanoes punctuate patchwork landscapes of vegetable farms. Surrounding waters contain more than 500 small islands. Even the airport is located on an island, albeit one barely larger than the runway...
...they are increasingly committing what is known in Japan as naibu kokuhatsu (exposure from within). This year, an employee of Snow Brand Foods alerted authorities to the company's deliberate mislabeling of foreign beef as a domestic product, a scandal that put the corporation out of business. Last month, an anonymous letter, apparently from an insider at Tokyo Women's Medical College to the parents of a 12-year-old girl who died during heart surgery, alleged that fatal errors were made during the operation. Two doctors were subsequently arrested for trying to cover up their mistakes by altering medical...
...earlier ruling that the ban is illegal. BOTTOM LINES "If you saw something, you stopped it. Oh, a good audit was a beautiful thing." Al Bows, 88, retired Andersen senior partner, on accountancy when Arthur Andersen hired him in 1935 "It looks to me like spring, when the snow melts and you see the dog shit that's been there all winter." John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, on the scandals rocking corporate America "Greed is not an issue of business, it's an issue of human beings." Alan Greenspan, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman, on the causes of the stock...