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...they cut the phone lines. Thinking quickly, he told them his wife could not swim and was unable to make it to the boats. Nonplussed, the invaders turned away long enough for the Murphys to hide in the undergrowth. Last week, at a hotel in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, James said, "If they would have taken us, we'd have been the only American hostages." That would have been truly unlucky, because the abductors were not only marauders but also distinctly anti-American...
...Nearly 80% of the $800 he makes each month is earned on the Internet, and he is "concentrating on international sales." The clerks at the local post office and courier service know him on sight. "There are not too many people like me in Cuzco, sending packages to Kuala Lumpur...
...Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1,476 ft.). Peaked like Angkor Wat, the world's tallest building attests to the ambitions of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...
...boosterism what Las Vegas is to ATM machines, has been playing catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood for the first time and feels the need to display in its driveway the most expensive luxury...
Which is why, I told them, that Chicago should not trouble itself to get into a height fight or a passenger race with the likes of Kuala Lumpur or Atlanta. It is, after all, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City. Somebody reminded me that if Liebling were writing now, he'd have to call Chicago the Third City; Los Angeles has more people. Does that mean that some Chicago booster is concocting a scheme to annex Moline and move its population to the Loop? If so, please, stop...