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...sneak or bribe their way in. (Two-thirds of the population doesn't have a residency permit.) It's a city of big-time crime, beggar syndicates, drug trafficking, restaurants serving lobster sashimi to mafia-entrepreneurs?and a home to what the Hong Kong government says is a half-million illegitimate children. The population now totals 4 million, and the economy is growing at 31% a year. Call it China's Tiajuana, with a dash of the Jetsons...
Runners drew their inspiration from the half-million spectators lining the course...
...boys are back in force. And in a buyer's market: Thanks to the burst tech bubble, the cost of a 30-second spot is up only $100,000 this year, compared to last year's half-million jump, and some reports have it that CBS was still looking for takers as late as Friday. (For movie companies, the price was still a little rich. Only MGM, with "Hannibal," Universal, with "The Mummy Returns," and Columbia, with "A Knight's Tale," have bought game-time spots (one each) and Paramount is running its "Tomb Raider" ads during the cheaper...
...weeks ago, an American Express security official placed an urgent call to New York City-based Secret Service agent Tim Raymond. Someone in Miami had racked up at least a half-million dollars worth of fraudulent charges against more than 100 American Express accounts. The cards hadn't been stolen, so they had to be counterfeits--very good ones, since they had zipped past the security screens in the computers of the giant charge-card company...
Back in the 1930s, my predecessor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Harry Shapiro, while sensibly warning of the "dangers of prophecy," wondered what humans might become a half-million years hence. His predictions included such features as a rounder skull, a smoothing of the area above the brows, a reduction in the size and number of teeth, and a shrinking of the face in general. Shapiro also predicted that we would get taller and even balder and that body hair would continue to diminish...