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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind the clamor lies a fundamental mystery: To what extent is Tung free to make decisions without Beijing's interference? As Tung prepares to govern, analysts feverishly search for clues as to where his true loyalties...
Other testimony will come from Chris So, an acquaintance of Markhasev's who came forward with information partly to reap the $100,000 reward posted by the National Enquirer. So says he and a friend, Michael Chang, accompanied Markhasev to a wooded area, apparently on a search. The trio did not find what Markhasev was looking for. Weeks later, when So led the Los Angeles police department to the spot, the officers located a knit cap and pistol. But no fingerprints have been found...
Want to see how much the world knows about you? Try this: log on to the World Wide Web, fire up a search engine (one of those Websites with names like HotBot or AltaVista that scour the Internet for key words), and type in your name. You're probably listed somewhere, especially if you've been mentioned in a newspaper or magazine article during the past few years...
Want to get really creeped out? Click over to InfoSpace, "the Ultimate Directory," whose People Search Directory has the home address of everybody with a listed phone number, all 112 million of them. Type in your name, and out pops a map of your neighborhood, with a little X marking your residence. Click on the icon to get written directions to your house...
...thinks there's too much personal information drifting around in cyberspace. To test that proposition, I went to the Net to see what I could find about her. My first stop: the Dianne Feinstein home page, which pops up as soon as you type her name into any Web search engine (I used HotBot). There I discovered her date of birth and the names of her husband, daughter, stepdaughters and granddaughter. That's more than enough information to prime the pump at a commercial database service. I went to KnowX, one of the most comprehensive sources of public information...