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...same family for 29 generations. "There are no poor people in Brunei," said one U.S. official. He added that little Brunei, with its annual per-capita income of roughly $17,000, "has no serious problems of any kind." Shultz chatted with the Sultan and took a tour of the thousand-room palace compound with its squash and tennis courts and a banquet hall with a 120-ft.-high ceiling, which seats 4,000. Basically, said the American official, Shultz was there to show Sultan Hassanal Bolkaih that the U.S. is aware of Brunei's existence...
LeRoy did spend several hundred thousand dollars on architectural plans, legal fees and so on, but there had to be protracted negotiations with the city parks department and the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. and the New York Public Library (which adjoins the park) and all the private watchdog groups that doggedly keep watch over the fall of every sparrow. After nearly four years of effort and expense, with no actual building begun and no end in sight, LeRoy this spring abandoned the whole project. "The process has so many hands in it that it is terribly hard to do without...
...strictest creationists, who take the biblical story of creation literally, believe that the earth was created only several thousand years ago, complete with all the animal species that have ever lived. In their vision, some species perished in Noah's flood but until then dinosaurs and people walked the earth together...
...gave murder back to the people who commit it," said Chandler, who found the details of British mysteries as unexciting as "spillikins in the parlor." Hammett's early hero, the Continental Op, is a nameless abstraction of the hard-boiled ethic: "I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection to women is like kissing dry ice: "You think I'm a man and you're a woman," he says...
There are other clouds hanging over the networks. Since a thousand computer messages can be as easily sent as one, electronic junk mail tends to proliferate, forcing users to scroll through useless verbiage to find the information they need. Some systems are impossibly hard to use, others are plagued by malicious hackers. Rockwell's Sutter reports that even defense contractors' employees can become so engrossed with on-line browsing that they neglect their legitimate work, squandering whatever productivity gains the technology might have brought...