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...thriving liquor-smuggling operation in the city. One of his special skills was relabeling cheap French red vins de table as upmarket brands. Customs knew just what he was up to: it oversaw the whole scam and took a cut. "No one got caught," says Zheng. His gang would transport Hennessy or Bordeaux from Hong Kong to the border at Lo Wu, whisk them through the state-run duty free store, and wheel half of the consignment straight into the city without paying the mandatory 180% duty. Other gangs run cigarettes into Shenzhen, or, in the reverse direction, everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing The Line | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Friends" handily on a weekly basis and still gets more people talking than any network show out there. ("Back From the Outback," a where-are-they-now cleanup show charged with sopping up the last of CBS' May-sweeps spoils next week, may finally yield to the aging Peacock gang.) Here's management's leverage in the Hollywood strike talks: For the second year in a row, actor- and writer-free Reality TV was the headliner of the boob-tube season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor' Winner Tina Wesson | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Sorry, gang - that?s a little too real. Let me know when "Survivor III" is ready to roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tina Was Tantalizing, the Show Was Not | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

That was, of course, before California's debacle, which erased EP&L's gains and caused some states to slam the brakes on dereg programs. Elsewhere, deregulation has lowered prices, and the green gang is still making inroads. So the game isn't over--some California parishes have begun strapping solar panels on their roofs--nor is the need for power of all kinds. The Energy Department sees a 25% surge in electricity needs by 2010 and has penciled in a similar rise in capacity. That supply growth depends on the construction of new generators. Yet the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earth, Inc.: Almighty Power | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...story is what Variety would dub “one of those things.” Fittingly enough, in a film about high-tech thievery, the main plot elements themselves appear to have been stolen from Mission Impossible 2. Lai is Mac, the leader of the Skyline Cruisers, a gang of high-tech thieves with outrageously inventive gimmicks at their disposal. When the Cruisers undertake a “Mission Noble” to rescue a cure for cancer from the hands of evil, they run into unexpected obstacles, including a former Cruiser who betrayed...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cruising The 'Skyline' In Style | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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