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Turning real estate into a reflection of a mind that in turn mirrors a society is a tricky literary feat. Millhauser pulls it off by lowering the barriers between realism and myth. The effect is also to remove artificial distinctions between the entrepreneur and the artist. Both, this well-told tale of obsession suggests, are gripped by demonic energies and grand schemes. And both take big risks, not the least of which is to be consumed by their own creations...
...realm, the $550 million Stratosphere Tower, Hotel and Casino that rises 1,149 ft. above Las Vegas like a gleaming blue syringe in the neon night sky. For a moment, his taste of triumph is soured by a nagging memory. "A few days ago," the 54-year-old entrepreneur says, "I had a nightmare that the tower was cracking and starting to lean. Luckily, I woke up before it fell over. Which I guess means something is going on self-consciously...
CompuNet has been open for business only six months but already has 2,000 paying customers. "Chinese youth can accept this quickly," says CompuNet co-founder Zhang Shuxin. "You just need a good way to introduce it." Zhang, a 33-year-old entrepreneur, caught the online bug while touring America in 1994, and has picked up a few high-caffeine marketing techniques. In January she opened the Cybercafe, a night spot in the lobby of the Beijing Concert Hall where both the wired and the wannabes gather to exchange E-mail and breathe the Internet's libertarian...