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...screwed herself over vis-à-vis jobs, relationships, and life. She can forget political office—no one’s going to be gunning to vet this petite nymphomaniac. And that job at Goldman seems unlikely too—how many investment banks want to hire the girl whose claim to fame is that she daily exposes her sex life online? And keeping up this sort of celebrity will be rough, because age is going to catch up with her at some point: "My Favorite Position," when written by an arthritic, sex-crazed geriatric, doesn?...
...based in Pepperell, Mass., hopes to have a lie-detection scan with 90% accuracy ready for use by late 2007, according to CEO Steven Laken, who says the U.S. intelligence community is watching closely. "If someone says, 'I know where bin Laden is,'" Laken asserts, "the U.S. government could hire us to verify the intelligence...
Hong Kong's trading companies have moved beyond consumer goods. Noble Group, founded in 1987 in Hong Kong by a former steel trader named Richard Elman, sources commodities ranging from soybeans to petrochemicals to aluminum. A Chinese steel mill searching for a reliable supply of iron ore can hire Noble to find it, deliver the ore and then market the steel made from it. For some products, Noble controls the entire supply chain--for example, it grows oilseeds in Argentina, stores them in Noble-owned warehouses, ships them to China from Noble-controlled Argentine ports, processes and refines them...
...fake boyfriends and fiancées. Many of the stand-ins are ordinary people who sign up to make a few extra bucks, and while most end up impersonating significant others, Bek Hui Sun, president of the year-old Seoul-based website Helpmon.com, notes that demand for parents-for-hire is growing. "The students really like this," says Bek. His company's site offers the services of nearly 3,000 members, some 40 of whom are willing to help students out of sticky situations. "There's a lot of pressure on students to do well in school and they...
...executive at a major U.S. fashion retailer looking to fill its racks with a spring collection. Stop by the offices of Li & Fung in Hong Kong's Kowloon district and its staff will track down the best fabrics, buttons and other components at the best prices and hire the right manufacturers to sew the clothes together. With 72 sourcing offices in 41 countries, the company delivers more than cheap sweaters. Li & Fung can tap into over 8,000 factories making anything from carpets to dog brushes. In 2006 alone, the company was involved in the production and shipment of some...