Many false dawns in land of the rising sun
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At the end of August, Credit Suisse (NYSE:CSR) will close down its New  Japan fund following a period of disappointing returns. After 19 years of investment, the fund has halved in size to &pound;2m in the past year, and Credit Suisse says it does not expect any sudden improvement in performance. It puts this down, in part, to the inherent difficulty of investing in Japanese equities.
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By Advocate staff report  A couple of minutes before the sun sets today, the moon will peek over the horizon in the east. It's likely too look a bit eerie.  When the moon rises at 6:03, it will already be eclipsed by the Earth's shadow and will probably be a crimson red.
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By John Noble Wilford Early people in Peru, like others in antiquity, went to great lengths to track the rising and setting of the Sun through the seasons as a guide for agriculture, an object of worship and a mystical demonstration of a ruler's power.
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A TRADITIONAL Oriental ritual helped to dispel
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If you think that China and India are the rising stars of the developing world, you may be missing a big part of the story.
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By Merri Niland-bare  This evening, as the "day goeth away, and the shadows of the evening are stretched out," look low in the east for the mysteriously crimson full Moon, struggling to be noticed in the early twilight.
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Dozens of casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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The junta is so illogical that it used numerology to schedule its last crackdown. That makes the outcome of the current violence impossible to predict and raises doubts about whether even China can influence the country's military rulers.
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By Alan M. MacRobert, Globe Correspondent | November 6, 2004. In this darkening season, lots of people start the day before sunrise.
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The peace overture in Chen Shui-bian&#39;s &quot;Double Ten National Day&quot; speech turned out to be another sham. One of Chen&#39;s major announcements, which was considered to be something new in his speech, was his call
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Something seems to be missing from online weather maps.
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Debunking the falsehoods springing from this November's contest
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By Joe Cunningham Staff Writer  It's as if you go to a Broadway show and the curtain never opens. You know there's something spectacular happening, you just can't see it. That's what it will be like Saturday when a total lunar eclipse will be visible for most of the world.
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Sometimes, a thing looks too bad to be true.
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U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler's courtroom yesterday experienced the kind of harmonic convergence generally reserved for those occasions when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
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In normal times, Luis Egas would have risen before dawn to tend livestock or fields of potatoes and onions. But as the sun rose Saturday, all he could do was survey his village, laid waste by a volcanic eruption that spewed incandescent rock, showers of ash,and rivers of molten lava.