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...cell phone just slightly larger than the one you carry now? How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they can answer those questions. In their effort to find that new plateau in communications, however, they're off to a rocky start...
...Sprint, plus Germany's Veba AG and Russia's Krunichev State Research Production Space Center. The joint venture was supposed to go live on Sept. 23, but then software glitches led officials to disclose that they will delay until Nov. 1 what amounts to the final roll of the dice in its $5 billion gamble to revolutionize telecommunications--or become the best-publicized flop in history. The announcement nudged its stock price on the NASDAQ exchange down to the mid-30s in mid-September, from a stratospheric high of $72 a share in May. The firm also revealed that...
...loud, and they're living in America, and they're living as bad as Negroes, for God's sake; so there's no way they're gonna let a scrawny, bused-in black kid from Bed-Stuy have a moment's worth of happiness. "Can you believe Andrew Dice Clay once went to my school?" Rock says, remembering. "He was way older, but that was the kind of student the place produced." He sighs. "That was my roughest time...
...Qianlong is moored for the night at Wushan, and next to it at the dock is a large boat with a neon sign for WUSHAN GODDESS ENTERTAINMENT CITY. Gambling is illegal in China, but this is a casino, open all day, with high-low dice games, blackjack and bingo. Laid-off workers crowd the tables, spending their last renminbi on a few rolls of the dice. The casino is run by an overweight Hong Konger who wears expensive jeans and a heavy gold watch but doesn't want to give his real name. Neither do his two formidable-looking bodyguards...
...really lets you exercise your mind," he said. "[Gaming] is not about throwing dice but about dealing with situations...