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Terpilowski has a secret for you. It doesn't improve your chances. "Service personnel have become anesthetized by the obnoxious," he says. And here's something to consider: he manages to get the best tables in restaurants, ocean-view guest rooms and first-class airline seats without redeeming miles for upgrades or getting pushy with a maitre d'. He's not trading professional courtesies either...
...readily admit, this haven just doesn?t feel as safe as it used to. And the defining characteristic of investors is to never look back, to flit unblinkingly to the safest haven around, no tears shed and no patriotism considered. And if New York City, dangling nakedly into the ocean, its gateway toppled, doesn?t seem the stronghold it once did, the investing hordes may just start to shop around for a new one, and adjust the balance of world economic power...
...image is a frightening one: a New York swallowed by water. In the model, tiny men in boats make their way across an expansive ocean spotted only by the tops of the city's tallest structures: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and the monstrous heads of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Staring at these monstrous heads, I was reassured by the exhibit's promise that even when New York is gone, these buildings will remain tall—proof of the power and history of a fallen city...
...name Asian countries, rarely got beyond China, and one boy even rearranged world geography to place England in the area that has traditionally been occupied by Japan. A statistic was also sited that would suggest that well over half of American high school graduates are unable to name the ocean that separates the United States from Asia...
Even if we assume that government officials and policy makers are more knowledgeable than the average American, and that they are able to identify Asian nations and the ocean that separates North America from Asia by name, the United States faces serious problems in the not distant future. Although we may know facts, statistics, and names, it is difficult for Americans to understand the different value systems, codes of moral conduct, priorities and ways of thinking that exist in Asia, which often conflict with...