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...Wong maintains, that it encourages competition in the form of unlicensed bookies who can offer better odds because they tithe nothing. The situation "sets up Hong Kong as a paradise for illegal bookmaking," says Wong, who estimates that as much as $6 billion is bet illegally every year. "People wonder how we're still in business," he says...
...Disappearances and Victims of Violence, and which examines alleged human-rights abuses during the Suharto era. Three years later, he co-founded Imparsial, a human-rights monitoring group. His highest profile campaign of late was lobbying against a bill for an expanded intelligence agency. Munir's fellow activists wonder if he was involved in some new project that ultimately proved too dangerous. As a habit, Munir kept things to himself, Rachland says, especially when the matter was dangerous. Even in death, Munir hasn't escaped his enemies. On Nov. 20, someone mailed his wife a decapitated chicken along with...
...steer this thing?" passengers might wonder as they step into the cartoon-like vehicle. It's a golf cart-sized car with seats and a dashboard that accelerates, turns and stops, but it has no steering wheel?and no driver. The CyberCar uses the latest in computer technology to dispense with human navigation...
...wonder that so many skeptics think Lampert's latest gambit is more about real estate than retail, part of a long-term liquidation plan to unload billions of dollars' worth of property, as well as perhaps some valuable brands, to the highest bidders. But it's a notion that the notoriously reticent Lampert took pains to reject last week. While acknowledging that some underperforming stores would continue to be disposed of, he told investors, "I don't think any retailer should aspire to have its real estate be worth more than its operating business...
...world's fastest yacht with a single hull is a 140-ft. carbon-fiber wonder. With two 148ft. masts and five sails, the silver-colored Mari-Cha IV, owned by billionaire Robert Miller, can travel at speeds of up to 36 knots, about twice what other boats its size can do. It holds four world records, including the West Marine Pacific Cup, a race from San Francisco to Hawaii, which it won this past July...