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...Indeed, to some the Hong Kong market's current China mania is eerily reminiscent of the territory's short-lived dotcom boom of 2000, when investors queued for hours to snatch up order forms for shares of Internet ventures, only to see their acquisitions turn to dross when the bubble popped. These days, the object of desire has changed, with investors equally convinced that the China boom is a sure thing. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland companies are called, spiked 152% in 2003. Now that investors are back, Chinese companies are rushing...
There are a lot of reasons merchants love the current gift-card boom, but topping the list is this powerful statistic from auditors Deloitte & Touche: 10% of gift-card value--an estimated $4 billion this holiday season alone--is not redeemed. Why? Some people just don't get around to it. But Cameron Johnson, CEO of a new website called certificateswap.com is betting that in many cases the reason is that the shoe--or, rather, the shop--doesn't fit the wearer. Loosely modeled on eBay, a number of websites, including certificateswap.com and swapagift.com have sprung up to capitalize...
First came the boom. Ed Cable heard it driving home Nov. 21 on a lonely stretch of highway about eight miles south of downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was loud enough to make him hit the brakes. Then came the explosion--"right beside me," Cable says. "I immediately got off the highway and got out of the car." Shaken, the retired corrections officer saw the driver's-side window of his minivan was splintered and the roof had a hole "the size of a 50¢ piece." A policeman stopped to help, but Cable, 53, says he could not convince him that...
...everyone has bent his or her life around the danger. Bill Briggs, 56, has been driving a Yellow Transportation tractor-trailer for 14 years. On Oct. 4 he was five miles from home, listening to a cassette of blues guitarist Walter Trout, when he heard the boom, then felt glass shatter across his face. He pulled over and found a hole near the roof. When he jerked open the passenger-side door, a bullet fell to the ground. Briggs was back on the road 10 hours later. "The chances of getting shot at twice like that are like me hitting...
Keep in mind that the John Currin retrospective, now at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, is not actually called "Welcome to the Boom Boom Room." It's just hard not to think of it that way, and not only because so many of Currin's paintings are of women with breasts so large you want to yodel from one to the next. (It's a safe bet that he's the only painter of note ever to rate a review in Juggs magazine. A rave, of course.) But there's another kind of boom boom...