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...Moinesity (or Omahaness) is a bigger issue in Minneapolis than in St. Paul. In St. Paul--a city with not so many Sunday brunches, whose residents look on bathrooms as places you go in and do your business and come out--we have our own ballpark, next to the railroad tracks south of the State Fair Grounds, where our baseball team, the Saints, plays against teams from Duluth, Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fargo-Moorhead, Madison, Winnipeg and Thunder Bay. We wave at the trains as they go by, and we always have a good time regardless of what happens...
...what it used to be. According to The Wealthy 100: A Ranking of the Richest Americans, Past and Present, by Michael Klepper and Robert Gunther, Gates ranks a mere 31st. He is ahead of the modest Mark Hopkins, one of the powers who built the Central Pacific Railroad, just behind meat-packer Philip Armour, and way, way behind John D. Rockefeller at No. 1. Gates doesn't figure to threaten old John D. The authors determined the standings by looking at the tycoons' fortunes in relation to the country's total GNP. So even if Gates ratchets up the billions...
...over the next few months more than 40 Chinese dissidents and their families who have languished hidden in Hong Kong with Zhang will at last be granted asylum in the West and secretly flown out of the territory. These departures will mark the end of the legendary "Yellowbird" underground railroad set up to rescue activists after the June 1989 democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. For now, activists negotiating for the dissidents say it's too early to feel relieved. "None of us will celebrate yet," says one. "These are people who have lived years, even decades, in fear, always watching...
...JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks...
...nasty fight over a railroad? Not since the robber barons has the ownership of a set of tracks been so contested. The target: Conrail, the once tattered collection of government-owned freight lines that was created in 1976 and went public in 1987. CSX Corp. agreed to buy Conrail last month for more than $8 billion in cash and stock. Rival Norfolk Southern swiftly countered with a massive all-cash bid for Conrail of $10 billion, or $110 a share...