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...World's Most Happening City After reading about the changes taking place in the vibrant city of Shanghai as described in your report "Shanghai Swings!," I think my city of Hong Kong should be alert to, if not alarmed by, its new competitor [Sept. 27]. Clearly Shanghai is making a determined effort to become an international city and desires to compete with Hong Kong. Our title as "Asia's world city" could be snatched away by Shanghai. We in Hong Kong need to work hard if we want to keep our prosperity. It would not be too difficult for Shanghai...
...LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, California. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh...
Greenspan, a former jazz musician (he played clarinet and sax) and a disciple of free-market philosopher Ayn Rand, frequently confronts such agonizing choices. As the Clinton era drew to a close, he correctly foresaw the brewing bubble in high-tech stocks. He searched for a way to alert investors, famously referring to an "irrational exuberance" building up in the stock market. But he refused to say more, believing a sudden collapse in share prices would carry more risk than allowing the market to discover the bubble itself. The high-tech balloon continued to inflate for several years after...
...oncoming vehicles and triggers a flashing light as a vehicle approaches. For lane drifters (you know who you are), Infiniti is debuting a lane-departure warning system in its 2005 FX SUVs and 2006 M sedans. A camera on the rearview mirror recognizes lane markers and triggers an alert when you get offtrack...
...models, starting with cartoons and music videos. Eventually, cars may be networked so they can communicate with one another about roadside information, traffic updates and weather conditions while in transit. The manufacturer might even electronically transmit information to your car about, say, a problem with misfiring cylinders to alert you before you break down. And when you pass that hydrogen filling station, you might even get a digital coupon for a refill. --By Daren Fonda. With reporting by Joseph Szczesny/Detroit