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...changes, family-trust laws were amended to make the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next easier?and to offer sanctuary from high estate taxes in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, rules protecting customer confidentiality were strengthened. Divulging private financial information is now punishable by a fine of up to $78,000 and a prison sentence of three years, significantly more draconian than Switzerland's maximum punishment. "You're given an extra measure of confidentiality in Singapore," says Leslie Menkes, a Singapore-based managing director for Morgan Stanley's private-banking...
...celebrate that expertise alone is to limit him. To my eye, his greatest love was people. His adored wife Trish, his children and grandchildren came first, without question, but I know of no one who took more energetic pleasure in friends and strangers, entertaining them with wine, song, fine food and, above all, laughter...
...machines into the digital era. Coca-Cola HBC recently finished a six-month trial of 30 networked Coke machines at Dublin Airport in Ireland that sold mobile-phone top-ups, ring tones, games and logos - all downloaded from a central database - as well as soft drinks. It's now fine-tuning the business model, ensuring revenues cover the technology's cost. And Vodafone is field-testing two QuickPhone kiosks that sell ready-to-use prepaid handsets and SIM cards. But the machines, located in two Manchester, England, Vodafone shops, also have broadband connections and may eventually dispense...
...sound premise. Most of us lie easily, but we don't lie well, particularly when the truth could land us in hot water. Fibbing causes the heart to pound, breathing to accelerate and sweating to increase, and the polygraph measures all those things. Sometimes the machine works fine, but often the experience of being wired up to a piece of gadgetry and asked questions by an unfriendly stranger can produce the same symptoms as a lie. Moreover, the best liars tend to be the least troubled by their dissembling and produce the fewest outward clues. Polygraph advocates like...
...with the generic black-eyed and olive-skinned look typical of large swaths of the world's population. My father's family is from Peru, my mother's from Chile. Their parents were born and reared in South America. Beyond that, I know nothing about my ancestors. That was fine by me--until the new and growing industry of personal DNA analysis created a need I never knew...