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...love all night but last only 15 minutes. • That one mustn't listen to the smooth-talkers. The next time someone says, 'I'm going to plant a tree,' he'll have to have a shovel in his hand before I believe him. With his iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold-blooded financier (a redundancy of terms, I know). • That the Bronfman family is a cunning brood, who in selling Seagram...
...genes encoding four brain-growth regulators that have been found in newborns who go on to develop mental retardation or autism. Among these compounds, as National Institutes of Health researcher Dr. Karin Nelson and her colleagues reported last year, is a potent molecule known as vasoactive intestinal peptide. VIP plays a role not only in brain development but in the immune system and gastrointestinal tract as well, a hint that other disorders that so frequently accompany autism may not be coincidental...
...culture arm of politics performed well. A VIP tour of the set of NBC’s “The West Wing” went for $3500, and meals with George Stephanopolous, James Carville and Chris Matthews went for $450, 850 and 500, respectively...
...even if that's out of your league, plenty of high-net worth advisers will work with you. Most require $100,000 to $1 million of investable money to open an account, and they will provide personalized tax service and mutual-fund investing. For VIP treatment, $10 million is the threshold. Firms usually charge about 1% of assets each year and negotiate down for larger portfolios...
After dinner we meet friends at Vacuum Space (known as VS to those in the know). Phone (886-2) 2700-6535 to ask for a table in the vip room, set off from the dance floor by sliding glass doors that would suit a space pod. If you're still buzzing after the clubs close, Fuhsing South Road in southeast Taipei has food stalls open until the wee hours. Try the niurou laobing, a beef-filled pancake, or, if you're brave, a steaming hot pot of chou doufu, stinky bean curd...