Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Dec 9, 2013

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(1) Bruce Einhorn, Taiwan and China BFFs (For Now, Anyhow).
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... enates-most-of-asia

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Beijing's alienated most of Asia, but a thaw is developing with the island
(b) quotation underneath the title in print: "Relations are warming up, but China is still threatening Taiwan"
(c) photo caption: "CHEN [Deming] with YEN Cho-yun, the wife of the late chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation, on Dec 2"

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zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%BE%9C%E5%9A%B4%E5%80%AC%E9%9B%B2
(d) "Raymond YEUNG  楊 宇霆, an economist in Hong Kong with ANZ Bank"

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(2) Christina Larson and Heesu Lee, Koreans Labor Under a Mountain of Debt.
http://www.businessweek.com/arti ... n-housing-education

Quote:

"Over the past two decades, South Korea has morphed from a country of savers into a nation of spenders and borrowers. Jeong Young Sik, an economist at the Samsung Economic Research Institute in Seoul who tracks household debt, found that Koreans in 1990 saved on average 22.2 percent of their net household incomes; by 2012 that figure had dropped to 3.4 percent. The ratio of household debt to disposable income in 2012 was 160—higher than the ratio of 130 in the US in 2007, before the housing bubble burst.

"Koreans have the most credit cards per capita in the world, according to statistics from the Bank of Korea, with five cards for every person. The debt boom is possible in part because credit is readily available.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: They face giant credit card bills and hefty mortgages
(b) There is no need to read the rest.

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(3) Adi Narayan, A Lucrative Promise for India's Men: Whiter Skin.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... s-target-indias-men

Quote:

"Most Indian fairness creams use niacinamide, a vitamin B derivative obtained from poultry and fish, as the key ingredient. The compound works by slowing the production of melanin, a dark pigment produced by skin cells exposed to sunlight. The creams lighten the skin temporarily by blocking an enzyme required for this process, but the effect wears off after a few hours.

"The stock price of Kao, Japan’s biggest maker of toiletries, plunged in July when a unit recalled products containing skin-whitening component rhododenol after thousands of complaints about blotches or lost pigmentation.

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Lightening creams, popular with the nation's women, now target guys

(b) Well, I did not believe medication capable of skin whitening. After reading this article, I did read the pertinent topic. Yes, it (skin whitening) can be done, but mechanism is not settled yet.
(i) The first paper on valid skin-whitening treatment is from Kobe center of Proctor and Gamble.

Hakozaki T et al, The effect of niacinamide on reducing cutaneous pigmentation and suppression of melanosome transfer. Br J Dermatol, 147: 20-31 (2002)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12100180
(“Niacinamide had no effect on the catalytic activity of mushroom tyrosinase or on melanogenesis in cultured melanocytes. However, niacinamide gave 35-68% inhibition of melanosome transfer [ from melanocytes to keratinocytes] in the coculture model and reduced cutaneous pigmentation in the PREP model. In the clinical studies, niacinamide significantly decreased hyperpigmentation and increased skin lightness compared with vehicle alone after 4 weeks of use”)

The keratinocyte is a scientific term for a skin cell, made up of: Greek keras, horn; kytos a hollow, akin to L cutis.

Quotation 1 is incorrect in saying niacinamide “block an enzyme required for this process, but the effect wears off after a few hours.” The enzyme referred to is tyrosinase, the rate-limiting enzyme in the first step to make melanin from tyrosine. And niacinamide effect is not ephemeral.
(ii) nicotinamide
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide
(also known as niacinamide; is the amide of nicotinic acid (vitamin B3 / niacin))
(iii) nicotinic acid
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinic_acid
(section 11 History: Niacin was first described by chemist Hugo Weidel in 1873 in his studies of nicotine, by oxidation of nicotine using nitric acid [in one step]; “When the biological significance of nicotinic acid was realized, it was thought appropriate to choose a name to dissociate it from nicotine, to avoid the perception that vitamins or niacin-rich food contains nicotine, or that cigarettes contain vitamins. The resulting name 'niacin' was derived from NIcotinic ACid + vitamIN”)
(iv) Nicotinic acid should not be confused with nicotine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotin
(section 10.1 Name: Nicotine is named after the tobacco plant Nicotiana tabacum, which in turn is named after the French ambassador in Portugal, Jean Nicot de Villemain, who sent tobacco and seeds to Paris in 1560)

(c) Kaō Corporation  花王 株式会社
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kao_Corporation
(Headquarters Tokyo; Kao began as a domestic toiletry soap manufacturing company in 1887 by Tomirō NAGASE 長瀬 富郎)

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(4)Justin Bachman, Money Left in TSA.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... irport-loose-change
(“In the scramble to get through airport security, U.S. travelers left behind $531,395 worth of pocket change in those plastic tubs in fiscal 2012”

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(5) Robert Farzad, GE’s Lost Decade.
www.businessweek.com/articles/20 ... e-immelt-became-ceo
(“Jeffrey Immelt won one of corporate America’s top prizes 12 years ago when he was chosen to succeed industry legend Jack Welch as chief executive officer of General Electric * * * Shares of GE rivals such as Danaher, Honeywell, and United Technologies are at or near all-time highs”)

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Shareholders have seen a total return of zero since Jeff Immelt succeeded Jack Welch.
(b) There is no need to read the text. Do view the graphic, which shows that since Sept 7, 2001 when “Jeff Immelt [was] named CEO and chairman” to the present (12/2/2013), stocks of Danaher, United Technologies, Honeywell, and Dow Jones Industrial Average--in that order-- have outperformed GE, which is still in negative territory.
(c) Danaher Corporation (founded in 1969 and based in Washington DC)

Origins. Danaher Corp, undated
www.danaher.com/our-history
(“In the early 1980's, Steven and Mitchell Rales' vision of a manufacturing company, dedicated to continuous improvement and customer satisfaction, was conceived during a fishing trip on the Danaher, a tributary to the south fork of the Flat Head River in western Montana.The origin of the name "Danaher" goes back to the root ‘Dana,’ a Celtic word dating from before 700 BC and meaning ‘swift flowing.’ Danaher traces its origins back to 1969 when its predecessor, DMG, Inc, was organized as a real estate investment trust”)

But see Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford Univ Press:
(i) Dana as a surname: “Origin unidentified.”
(ii) The Irish surname Danaher is “Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Danachair ‘descendant of Danachar,’ a personal name meaning ‘poetry loving,’ from dán ‘craft,’ ‘poem.’”