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...tantalizing prize that the Chinese won't dare to mess with it. (Deng Xiaoping himself has been known to say, "To get rich is glorious.") The theory has been so convincing that big business has come to see 1997 not as a disaster but as an unrivaled opportunity to crack the billion-strong Chinese market. Integrating Hong Kong into the mainland would bring down the barriers that slow trade traffic into China...
...They say, 'If I had a camera, I'd take a picture of it," he said. "They crack up hysterically at themselves to a joke we've heard 3,000 times...
TIME's Joshua Quittner says a serious security flaw found in Netscape, the most popular World Wide Web browser, probably won't cast a pall over emerging electronic commerce. Two University of California at Berkeley graduate students have found that a knowledgeable computer user could crack the system in less then a minute, potentially giving users access to information such as credit card or bank account numbers. Netscape Communications plans to rush out a secure version of the software next week. "This is an interesting academic exercise, but online transactions are still a relatively minor part of the Internet," Quittner...
Harvard occasionally being the bastion of pessimism that it is, here will surely be those who see the score of Saturday's game, sigh, and crack jokes about another bad year...
...prospering business with ruthless efficiency. Aside from a persistent, insoluble public relations problem--certain elements in the community despise him--he is a model of the entrepreneurial spirit that we like to believe made America great, and at 19 he has the ulcer to prove it. Strike is a crack dealer monopolizing the trade in a Brooklyn, New York, housing project...