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According to Rice, there are more telephones in Manhattan than in all of Africa, and 50 percent of all Africans are under the age of 15. She hinted that these statistics, along with Africa's climbing growth rates, are just the tip of the African business opportunity iceberg...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diplomat Offers Plan for Africa at HBS | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...provide companionship and hone the all-important social skills needed to play nicely--with humans and other canines. "She loves this place," says Michelle Bouchard, a New York City theater producer who regularly brings her dog to the day-care facility at the New York Dog Spa & Hotel in Manhattan--a growing business, with services ranging from pedicures to massage. "The irony is I got the dog so that my only child wouldn't be lonely. But now the dog's lonely when Alex goes to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fido Gets Phobic | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...Number of minutes it takes couriers to travel three miles in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 25, 1999 | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...that the experience led him to write the greatest love tragedy of all time, not the greatest love comedy." Instead of that final shot of the beach, he says, "I shouldn't be telling you these things, but in my first go I had a sort of ghostly Manhattan in my mind as she walked off--but that was a ghostly skyscraper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scene Stealers | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...promos for this show are much funnier than the product. While the best WB dramas (Felicity, Buffy and Dawson's Creek) shape teen angst into complex characters and sharp dialogue, Zoe doesn't get much beyond 10[cent] sitcom jokes. The idea of watching four non-vampire slaying Manhattan teenagers sounds appealing, but the show makes you realize how much of high school was down time, not worth committing to script. Zoe makes an effort with realistic teen dilemmas and some quirkiness, but the overall thinness leaves you wanting more Boy Meets World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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