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...Isle of Man is a quirky sort of place with its tailless cats and Celtic traditions coexisting amiably with its sophisticated financial life and cutting-edge technology. Next month the island will launch Europe's first third-generation mobile phone network, allowing users to surf the Internet and download video clips while on the move. Yet the Fairy Bridge, on the highway south of Douglas, the capital, didn't get its name for nothing. Here the locals lift a hand ever so slightly and mutter "Hello, little people," to propitiate the fairies underneath. Transparency, lower tax rates and G3 phones...
...Japan have been based on the so-called "blue-eyed view" of Japan, but never the "brown-eyed view." Obscure Mormons from Salt Lake City have become television stars for doing nothing but holding forth in passable Japanese on their opinions of Japan. Nigerians or Filipinos are yet to launch similar careers...
...competition has led Let's Go to launch a series of measures to regain the college market-including a cross-country road trip to hand out free books on college campuses and an attempt to allow travelers to customize itineraries online...
...period a year ago. "It's the best of all the drug companies," says portfolio manager David Alger, who owns about $300 million worth of Pfizer in his funds. Merrill Lynch analyst Steve Tighe is high on the new products coming from Pharmacia, which has partnered with Pfizer to launch a new anti-arthritis drug. And he says Elan is attractive since it trades at a discount to large cap and specialty-drug stocks...
...there's a big push to keep riots civil. Check out the latest in crowd-control tech: beanbag guns, Spidey-style Webshots that launch Kevlar nets, PepperBall shooters and tasers that fire probes charged with a 50,000-volt shock. The heavy-duty stuff is yet to come: the U.S. military is developing a microwave gun whose beam feels like burning, and it's toying with sonic weapons that emit sound waves strong enough to knock you over or vibrate your internal organs to the point of nausea. By the way, Quiet Riot is still around; catch them touring...