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Aphrodisiacs. For the traditional lover's feast, you can't do better than the down-to-earth Flex Mussels on New York's Upper East Side, where the motto is "Grab, Eat, Repeat." John Bil, straight from Canada's Prince Edward Island, where the original Flex Mussels is located, mans the bar shucking 18 oysters in 90 seconds to give you a sampling of the shellfish from around the world, including rare wild oysters from a bed recently discovered off the coast of Maine. On Valentine's Day the restaurant is offering a 4-course menu with an oyster theme...
...inspiration for the good-natured, endlessly patient Mommy in the syndicated comic Family Circus, Thelma Keane first met her cartoonist husband Bil Keane during World War II while the American artist was stationed in her native Australia. After they married and returned to the U.S., Thelma managed all her husband's business affairs throughout his career. She is immortalized in Bil's work--which gets an assist from their son, Jeff Keane, and now appears in some 1,500 newspapers...
Charitable giving $258 bil...
Elsewhere, Wadhwaney has been snapping up shares in a Taiwan venture-capital firm, Hotung Investment Holdings, which trades at less than half the value of its net tangible assets--because the Taiwanese tech sector was crushed. He also likes BIL International, a Singapore-listed company that owns thousands of acres in Hawaii that it may or may not succeed in developing, a hotel chain in London and oil and gas royalties from the Bass Strait. The stock trades for at least 30% less than its value by his "ultraconservative" appraisal. Then there's Liu Chong Hing Investments, which owns...
...Elsewhere, Wadhwaney has been snapping up shares in a Taiwan venture-capital firm, Hotung Investment Holdings, which trades at less than half the value of its net tangible assets. He also likes BIL International, a Singapore-listed company that owns thousands of acres in Hawaii that it may or may not succeed in developing; a hotel chain in London; and royalties from oil and gas production in the Bass Strait. Based on his "ultraconservative" appraisal of these hard-to-value assets, Wadhwaney thinks the stock trades for at least 30% less than it's currently worth. Then there...