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...YORK CITY. The Russian government has opened its first tourist office in the U.S., providing information on booking airline flights, train trips and cruises. The Russian National Tourist Office, located in midtown Manhattan, can also advise on visa preparation and health precautions. BALTIMORE. The Babe Ruth Birthplace and Baseball Center, a National Historic Landmark, is acting as host of a special exhibit to celebrate the centenary of the legendary slugger's birth. ``Babe Ruth--An Artistic Perspective,'' on view until Sept. 5, portrays America's Sultan of Swat in more than 40 paintings, sculptures and photographs by artists including Miguel...
...Last October it announced that it was buying Intuit, maker of the leading check-writing (Quicken) and tax-preparation (TurboTax, MacInTax) programs. But the acquisition was challenged in federal court last week by five anonymous software companies that argued that the deal, and a related agreement between Microsoft and Visa, will allow Gates to corner the market on online financial transactions, taking a cut of every bill paid and every purchase made in the online "shopping malls" springing up on the Internet's World Wide...
...only people I owe money to are Discover Card and Visa," he jokes...
Hong Kong-based senior correspondent Sandra Burton has never wanted for determination; so when a long-sought visa to visit China and survey its mammoth Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River arrived recently, she set out immediately -- despite a broken ankle. She was doing nicely, navigating curbs and dodging Beijing bicycle traffic on her crutches, when she arrived at the office building of a high official attached to the dam. There, an apologetic aide informed her that due to one of the city's increasingly frequent power shortages, the elevator was out -- and she would have to climb...
...biggest problems facing would-be entrepreneurs and consumers on theInternet-- keeping credit card numbers secure -- might be solved if a new agreement lives up to its promise. Microsoft and Visa said today they're developing software that by late next year will keep Visa card numbers private by issuing passwords to customers. After that, the firms said, other credit card companies will also be able to use the software. That big-hearted clause drew grudging approval from MasterCard, Visa's main competitor, which said it was "committed to a strategy of supporting the consumers' ability to use card-based payment...