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...With so many new companies coming to market, cynics wonder if this mania will?like other investment manias?end in misery. Already, there are ominous signs of irrational exuberance. For example, China Green earned just $31 million in revenues and $14 million in profits in its last fiscal year from its distinctly unsexy business of growing cabbages and other produce and selling packaged vegetables such as boiled corn. Yet Hong Kong retail investors put in orders for nearly $4 billion of its stock, acting as if this tiny firm with about 150 employees is destined to become a global titan...
...might also wonder, if FSD is so widespread, why Viagra is now about as popular as vitamin C among all those male sex partners. To judge from the billion-dollar market for Viagra, no man can count on slipping peacefully into impotence. Who's behind the massive use of Viagra, if not an army of FSD-free girlfriends and wives? And thanks to the influence of Sex and the City, even reliably potent men are now indulging, says the New York Times, because of "the Samantha complex, a fear of wilting in the face of a new wave of sexually...
...punch a hole in a U.S. destroyer with a rubber raft full of explosives (as they did to the U.S.S. Cole in 2000), Americans are still skittish about foreign travel, and a traveler can fly between London and New York City in six hours for $300--one has to wonder if there will be enough customers to make the same journey in six days, at prices starting at $1,499 and heading north...
...different ways: the oddly named (but historically real) Barbe Acarie, a beautiful, wealthy zealot who takes Nicole into her home; Henry IV, the roguish but humane King of France, for whom faith is a matter of politics; and Rene Monnet, a skeptical doctor puzzled by the would-be wonder worker's hold over him: "There was nothing of carnal seduction about Nicole, but he thought there was something like spiritual seduction...
...earned her the tag the Asian Madonna; of complications from cervical cancer; in Hong Kong. She sold more than 10 million albums and was a charismatic actress in Hong Kong films, notably as a ghost lover in Rouge, as a Japanese spy in Kawashima Yoshiko and as Tung the Wonder Woman in The Heroic Trio...