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...busiest container port, with more than 100 ships arriving daily. Then, as the late hours of the afternoon arrive, the Indian fortune tellers, the joggers and California-style bladers, the myriad of couples waiting for dusk to come, all provide picturesque detail to the majestic scenario of the bay and Hong Kong Island's towering skyscrapers and elegant buildings. But the real magic lies elsewhere, in the labyrinth of streets and cavernous meadows where the multifaceted realities of the metropolis reveal their enigmas. From 8 p.m. to shortly after midnight, Temple Street becomes the showcase of one of Hong Kong...

Author: By Matteo F. Segalla, | Title: The View From Victoria Peak | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

Dysson, it turns out, is the brainchild of LaFong, the Bay Area team of writer Michael Kaplan and director John Sanborn, who had already created one CD-ROM (Psychic Detective) and two Web-based fictions and were seeking new ways to push the envelope of the Internet. Their vision for Dysson was to turn a simple E-mail exchange into an "immersive" experience in which the audience helps create the story by becoming characters in an ongoing drama. "My desire is for the Internet and television to merge," says Sanborn. "What could be better than a TV show where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS DENNY REALLY DEAD? | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

...well. He was nervous and fidgety. He lived on Maalox." Armed with a telltale suicide note (the IRS "sits, does nothing, and watches you die"), Ms. Barron now hopes to collect $1 million in compensation under a recent tax law amendment designed to keep too-passionate IRS agents at bay. Undeterred by feelings of guilt, the taxman has slapped liens on the couple's house and $400,000 in life insurance policies. They'll get that money if it kills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and Taxes | 8/1/1997 | See Source »

...exit ramp--will gain significance the more knowledge one acquires. Approaching the same point from a different direction will cause one part of the city to click into place in one's internal map as much as walking in Boston on Comm. Ave. cements the relationship between Back Bay and Fenway. And suddenly, a city that once seemed centerless will appear connected in ways that only the person who mapped it can understand, because the true map rests in the grip of memory...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Seeking the Tangible | 7/18/1997 | See Source »

DIED. DON HUTSON, 84, fleet-footed Green Bay Packers receiver; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. The "Alabama Antelope" held the record for career touchdown receptions (99) for four decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 7, 1997 | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

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