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...spectacular beaches? The velvety wine? The exchange rate? Something compelling seems to lure fugitives from around the world to the South African city of Cape Town. Last week police in the seaside metropolis arrested American fugitives Craig Michael Pritchert, 40, and Nova Ester Guthrie, 30, wanted by the FBI for a series of bank heists staged across the American West in the mid-1990s. U.S. officials say Guthrie and Pritchert--a former college baseball star who turned to crime after he felt he had been eclipsed by his teammate and future big-league slugger Barry Bonds--spent much...
...works of the imagination. Even when they are designed to look like moments plucked from the flux of the street, they're highly wrought visions crafted by a raft of photographers, stylists, creative directors and retouchers--people whose main goal, apart from satisfying their aesthetic impulses, is to lure your credit card out of your wallet. The art of these dream merchants is ultimately graded against the bottom line, and the high cost of their productions reflects the extravagant returns at stake. One 30-second spot of Missy Elliott and Madonna for the Gap required 400 hands (including those...
...Hyperbolic promotions to lure back tourists are de rigueur in Asia these days?from Malaysian shopping carnivals to Hong Kong air ticket giveaways. And the Koh Samui Carnival is an example of the kind of latter-day tourism twaddle that should never have made it past a boardroom brainstorm...
Stocks that have higher than average dividends and that are rated as secure by Standard & Poor's include AmSouth Bancorp (4%), Chubb (2.4%), Johnson & Johnson (1.8%) and Pfizer (1.8%). These numbers may not seem big enough to lure you back into stocks. But a big advantage of dividends is that they grow over time. An investor who bought Johnson & Johnson 10 years ago would today be receiving a yield of 9% on that initial investment; for Pfizer the yield would be 11%. That investor would also have seen her J&J stock appreciate 90% and her Pfizer...
...Elvis shades, tight, dove-gray slacks and a snow-white Kangol cap, is happily murdering Van Morrison's Have I Told You Lately. Ya Shop stocks the widest range of cheesy, fitted polyester shirts in Chatuchak (from 100 baht, or $2.50, upwards). But rather than rely exclusively on the lure of synthetic fabrics, its business card proudly boasts that the store is "near the toilets," which, it should be noted, are kept amazingly clean considering that Chatuchak draws some 300,000 shoppers spending a total of more than $730,000 every weekend...