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...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...
While members at the Alaska Club East, a 108,000-sq.-ft. health club in Anchorage, pound treadmills and pump weights, the kitchen staff at the facility's restaurant is getting a workout of its own. Baker Bil Hess hustles fresh strawberry-carob cookies out of the oven, replacing them with a sugar-free carrot cake. Nearby, chef Vicki Carter grills cuts of wild boar, reindeer hot dogs and other local game. Carter and her crew make about 150 health-conscious but palate-pleasing meals a day. "We serve people in swimsuits next to others in work suits," says Carter...
...then came the desserts. Instead of the sticky-sweet leaden pastry that many Middle Eastern joints try to pass off as baklava, the balawa bil ishta is light, flaky and subtly sweetened with crushed nuts and honey. The sinfully rich shoukolatat habibti, flavored with honey and cinnamon, hovers somewhere between a dark-chocolate truffle and a mousse...
...whole bygone civilization business a few years ago when doing researches for what became, in 1999, a Simon & Schuster book titled Atlantis Rising: The True Story of a Submerged Land, Yesterday and Today. I talked to scientists from the recently deceased paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone thinkers such as Rachel Carson and J.V. Luce. I developed a Deep Throat source at the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute...
JACK WELCH GE's $45 bil bid for Honeywell too sticky for Euro regulators. Rare dud for Neutron Jack...