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...Hong Kong For around $230, you can hire an antique tram from Hongkong Tramways to take you and 24 friends on a two-hour trip around the city's main districts. The tram has a built-in music system, and you can bring your own booze to sip as you roll past landmarks like Times Square mall and the Happy Valley racecourse. www.hktramways.com...
...Newcastle For a flaming good night out, hire a fire engine. You can rent a decommissioned engine from Mr. Fireman Parties. The engine can seat up to 10 partygoers and is staffed by genuine firemen. Prices start from $220 per hour, which includes two bottles of champagne. www.mrfireman.co.uk...
Gorton, Dresner and Shumate jump at the offer--for the challenge, the glory and a fat pile of money--but there are catches. The thuggish Yeltsin cronies who hire them insist on total secrecy and keep them virtual prisoners in a hotel. They cannot meet the candidate, who is often ill, drunk or both. Most ominously, the aides press the consultants to let them know if Yeltsin has no chance, so they can "take steps"--which, we assume, will be more brutal than push polling...
...Part of what makes these highly entertaining stories so readable is their presentation in comix form. Eichhorn, who doesn't draw, was smart enough to hire the best cartooning talent at a time when alty comix were beginning to really blossom. Consequently, the artists read like a who's who of top cartoonists, including Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Dan Clowes, Joe Sacco, Jason Lutes, Julie Doucet and tens of others. The best pieces match the cartoonist with the material. Carol Moiseiwitsch's splattery black and white imagery lends a horrifying intensity to "Fatal Fellatio." Peter Bagge, of "Hate" fame, punches...
Automation has been so successful that BNSF finds itself in a bit of a jam, with a shortage of workers. After years of cutbacks, BNSF plans to hire 1,600 employees this year and 1,000 more in each of the next five years. "I don't know if this is railroad's new Golden Age," says BNSF's boss, "but we haven't suffered the carnage of other businesses like steel and the airlines." Not that Rose doesn't dream big. Eventually, he says, the country's railroads won't be divided between East and West, and there will...