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...Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia said Wednesday. When authorities arrested him, the man, identified only as a 67-year-old Austrian living in the U.S., yelled threats at Al Fayed, the Kurier daily reported. Gollia said the man had contacted Al Fayed, the owner of London's Harrods department store, and offered to meet him in a hotel in Vienna for the exchange. Al Fayed sent Harrods' security chief, John Mcnamara, to meet the suspect and alerted the FBI, CIA and the Austrian intelligence agency. Austrian authorities are working in conjunction with the FBI and CIA to determine...
Like the finest Picasso paintings, the collision of these financial giants hints at a deeper, more complex revolution. The neat little boxes in which we store our finances--mortgage, cash, savings, and so on--are being subdivided in a million ways. Soon you won't recognize them individually. For instance, all your assets could be wrapped into a wealth account that is constantly on the prowl for investing opportunity worldwide...
Cash is already headed for a whole new dimension. MasterCard, for example, has invested millions in the development of an E-cash system called Mondex. Smart Mondex cards have tiny embedded microchips that can store not only electronic dollars but also five other types of currency, an abbreviated medical history and even a personalized electronic "key" that can open everything from your apartment to your office. Says Henry Mundt, MasterCard executive vice president for global access: "The chip that we are putting on the card now will form the platform for the ultimate in remote access for consumers to their...
...mail instead of sending a check. This saves you the trouble of balancing the checkbook at the end of the month, and it gives you the option of transferring the money from wherever you want: mutual fund, money market, even an old-fashioned checking account. Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits...
Evans' urban pride is not unique. Will F.Austin '00, whose home is the working classneighborhood of Dorchester plans on raising hisown family in the same Boston neighborhood wherehis father played street hockey and pick-upbasketball in a nearby park. Outside his door, afew pubs, Dunkin' Donuts, a hardware store, apizza joint and the St. George's Catholic Churchwere the center of Austin's urban landscape...