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Richard followed Star with his own scheme to provide long-distance phone service to Asian businesses via satellite, but that went nowhere. In 1996 brother Victor was kidnapped by a criminal triad boss, and father Li paid a ransom estimated at more than $100 million. If that wasn't enough, Hong Kong went into recession after the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997, and the fortunes of the Li family, or at least the family's confidence in Hong Kong, seemed to be slipping...
...sail and is driven by the pressure of radio waves generated by a huge radio transmitter. The transmitter stays put, with its radio beam pointing in the direction we wish to explore, and the sail travels along the beam, picking up momentum from the radio waves. This scheme works beautifully in theory, but there are some practical difficulties to be overcome. The transmitter has to be gigantic and must focus the energy of the beam on the fishnet as it accelerates. The fishnet must absorb only a tiny fraction of the radio waves to avoid being vaporized. The probe must...
...years since the depository was founded, this basic scheme has undergone some revision. But because the facility is one of the first of its kind, Lane has had to play it by ear and employ some good old Yankee ingenuity...
...current scheme--substantially different from a 1998 version on another site--would replace Coolidge Hall and the University Information Services building with two buildings connected by a tunnel under Cambridge Street. The structures would allow Harvard to consolidate the government department and all of the centers for international study, leaving the Littauer Center entirely to the economics department...
...collect to better target customers. MicroStrategy went public in 1998, and the stock took off after the creation of Strategy.com a unit that beams custom-tailored information to subscribers of clients like Ameritrade, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. This month, Saylor announced a $100 million charitable scheme to launch an "Internet university." He says these plans haven't been changed by the news...