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...forced to take a $2 billion write-down for its KPN purchase this past half-year due to the plunge in telecom stocks. It will likely report another hit for its AT&T Wireless investment in the quarter ending March 31. DoCoMo overpaid for its overseas stakes, says Kenshi Tazaki, managing director of consultancy Gartner Japan. "On the other hand, DoCoMo's stock was valued higher then, too," Tazaki says. "At the time they had buying power that, with all the problems they currently face, they may not have much longer...
When Dr. Tadakatsu Tazaki, fired with ambition to find new antibiotics, visited Nagoya University (230 miles west of Tokyo) in 1952, one of the first things he did was to spoon up a sample of soil from the medical-compound garden. Hopefully, he labeled it K-2J, sent it to his ex-chief, Microbiologist Hamao Umezawa, at Tokyo University. There it became one of the 1,200 soil samples tested every year to see whether they harbor microbes capable of producing substances to kill other microbes...
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