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What I mean is that a taller building was built in another city. That city is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, not the first place that comes to mind when the conversation turns to the subject of imposing skylines. Chicago fought tooth and nail to avoid being dropped to the second slot. Apparently, its boosters do not look forward to driving an out-of-town visitor past the Sears Tower and saying, "To find a building taller than that, my friend, you'd have to go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
...really does exist and is considered the final arbiter on the subject of which building is the tallest. Chicago argued that a tall building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...
...Manhattan during the past few months--and one of at least 100 such establishments that have booted up around the country and overseas. Computer bars can now be found everywhere from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Boise, Idaho; from London to Hong Kong. One is even expected to open in Kuala Lumpur later this year...
...research section of the Soviet division and the counterintelligence staff. There was hardly an important, or even an unimportant, case involving the KGB or the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) that she did not know. Jeanne Vertefeuille could follow the tangled threads that might link a case in Kuala Lumpur 10 years ago to one in Vienna today. If a KGB colonel had appeared in Copenhagen under one name and turned up a decade later in New Delhi with another identity, give it to Jeanne-she would sort...
CHEERS WENT UP IN FUTURES MARKETS everywhere when the news broke of Leeson's detention in Germany last Thursday after his Royal Brunei airliner landed in Frankfurt after a 12-hour flight. Leeson had left Kuala Lumpur to rendezvous with his wife Lisa in the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu, and there, after plunking down $1,600 in cash for seats in the economy section, he boarded the plane in his own name. Malaysian authorities just missed catching up with the Leesons. But reports of their flight immediately circulated abroad. In Frankfurt, German police, carrying pictures of the couple...