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...years, right under authorities' noses. It's also meant that tenants of the prestigious Manhattan property have been paying millions in rent to Tehran every year - $4.5 million in 2007 alone. Last November, more than 30 years after the Islamic revolution, U.S. officials moved to take over all of Alavi's U.S. properties and bank accounts, spread over five states...
...line. The state's division of corporate services recently boasted it spent just $12 million to earn $700 million - a quarter of the state's annual revenue. That enviable cost-revenue ratio has triggered copycat competitors. It couldn't be easier. Apply online - providing less ID than it would take to get a library card - and have it all processed within 24 hours, for little more than $100; Nevada and Delaware will do it all in an hour for $1,000. Then, for modest fees, enjoy the illusion of legitimacy, complete with a telephone listing, receptionist, banking services, shareholders...
...slogan: "Look out, we're going to 'OWN' you." It's a line better fit for some guy from New Jersey, not Newfoundland. "I mean, you know we didn't say on the podium," says Jackson, an avuncular guy who is clearly enjoying this famously low-key nation's take-no-prisoners approach. "We said own the podium. We're getting a little cocky here." (See pictures of Olympic athletes' tattoos...
...fine-tune the Canadian Olympic machine, Jackson's jocks had better deliver. What will happen if they don't fulfill his gold guarantee? "I'm going to try to find the quietest little island," says Jackson, "so that no one can find me." Surely, Canada would want to take out its pent-up aggression...
...might think passengers taking off or landing at Charles de Gaulle Airport would feel unsettled seeing a supersonic Concorde jet mounted on a steel frame alongside the runway, with its needle-like beak pointed upward in take-off position. After all, just such a Concorde plane crashed in a ball of fire nearly 10 years ago, less than two miles (3 km) from where the mounted jet now stands. It was an event that doomed the world's fastest-ever passenger jet - an aircraft designed by French and British engineers - to a future as a museum relic...