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...B.O.B." HANDWRITTEN NOTE found on an airsickness bag during a United Airlines flight bound for Los Angeles from Sydney, prompting a bomb scare and an emergency return to the airport. The letters probably stood for "Best on Board," a reference to the most attractive passenger, rather than "Bomb on Board" as was feared by the crew...
...damage ultrasensitive relations with Pyongyang's high-strung dictator, Kim Jong Il. But hiding refugees from the media became more difficult last week, when 468 North Koreans?the largest group to reach the South since the end of the Korean War?stepped off two jets at a military airport south of Seoul ready to take their place in South Korean society. The group, which had been hiding in Vietnam after escaping through China, is part of a growing tide of North Koreans fleeing famine and oppression. This year, 1,300 North Korean refugees have landed in Seoul, more than four...
Friedman is the president and CEO of Carpenter & Company, Inc., a national real estate and investment firm that runs the Charles Hotel Complex in Cambridge, the Logan Airport Hilton Hotel in Boston and the St. Regis Hotel and Condominium Tower in San Francisco. He graduated from Dartmouth College and coached the Harvard College skiing team from...
...resident. The city last week unveiled its own public transportation system, a $650 million, privately funded monorail that, for $3 a ride, runs the 4-mile stretch from the convention center up the Strip to the MGM Grand, and someday is supposed to connect all the way from the airport to downtown. Turnberry and CENTRA Properties plan to build a 1.2 million-sq.-ft. outdoor mall near the Mandalay Bay, which will further the invasion of stores such as Saks, Macy's, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom, now housed at the Fashion Show mall, which is close to finishing...
...Switzerland and Hungary, and claims to have quit playing chess in favor of a game of his own creation, Fischerandom chess, in which traditional playing pieces are put in mostly random places on the board. Last week immigration authorities took the renegade gamester into custody at Tokyo's Narita Airport as he attempted to board a flight with a canceled passport. U.S. to Fischer: checkmate...