Word: macau
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...earlier this month that it had RFID-enabled forklifts in 975 of its North American stores. RFID tags are embedded in tires. They're in library books and credit cards and lift tickets. The military uses them to track assets in Iraq. The Venetian Casino that just opened in Macau puts an RFID tag in each one of its chips. As of Jan. 1 of this year, every U.S. passport contains an RFID tag, to make them machine-scannable and more forgery-proof. (Helpful hint: if you're worried about someone snooping on your RFID passport remotely, you can wrap...
Like the city in which it is held, the Macau Grand Prix has long been biding its time. For years, it trundled along in the bottom tier of race-car meetings as a sort of amateur's Monaco, the field dominated by weekend drivers and their hobby cars. These days, however, it is bigger, louder and definitely on the world map - fueled in large measure by the growth of Macau itself...
...From Nov. 15-18, a 900-strong media corps and some 260 competitors will swarm upon China's gaming capital for the 54th Macau Grand Prix. The organizers would probably have to buy solar panels for half of Mongolia to offset the emissions of this orgy of gas-guzzling, but why muse on such deflating topics when there are eight fierce races to behold? This is the only street meet in the world that features both car races (including a Formula Three race and a World Touring Car Championship) as well as motorcycle events (among them the Macau Motorcycle Grand...
...After sundown, all the worldly pleasures that Macau is famous for are there for the taking (and Hong Kong but an hour away by jetfoil), but if gleaming casinos and cigar bars are not your thing try heading out to Coloane Island - the only part of Macau that hasn't been turned into a Chinese facsimile of the Vegas strip. Call well ahead for a balcony table at the tiny Restaurante Espaco Lisboa, tel: (853) 882 226, and enjoy Portuguese home cooking while the sounds of cicadas, and the day's races, ring in your ears...
...hospital, it wins official gratitude. But more deliciously, it can make headlines as the world oohs and ahs over sums spent. In 2006, Hong Kong petroleum executive Alice Cheng paid $19.4 million for a prized decorated bowl, shattering the previous world record for Qing dynasty porcelain. In late September, Macau gaming tycoon Stanley Ho spent $8.9 million on a bronze horse head looted by British and French troops from Beijing's old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan, in 1860. He then donated the artwork, which fetched the highest price ever paid for Qing sculpture, to the Chinese state. "Bringing back...