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...hate window seats, I remember thinking just before my virtual flight took off. You can see how far you'd fall if... Oops. Don't go there. I want to speak to the crew for reassurance, but there is no one. Instead I'm squeezed into a row of four seats, alone...
...three-room office on the outskirts of Paris, Jean-Franĉois Cousi holds out hope that expansion funding is just around the corner for his Francexpress, which rents out servers to Internet companies - even as, in the adjoining room, a co-worker types furiously next to the window, taking advantage of natural light to save money on electricity...
...store window, set along an outdoor escalator that snakes up Hong Kong's busy Central district, turns heads all day long as people crane to get a better look at the riding crops and kangaroo-hide whips on display. If they looked closer, they would notice an intriguing sign in the window: "Play Rooms Available." For $115 an hour, customers can rent one of two dungeons to indulge any of their bondage, dominance and sadomasochism (BDSM) proclivities. "People come from Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, China - all over the world," says Decima, the store's 54-year-old British owner...
Nonetheless, I headed to Hong Kong's Sheung Wan district, which is home to hundreds of shops selling all manner of traditional medicines. The window of the first shop I entered looked promising: dried seahorses were arranged on a dirty glass cabinet with pieces of deer antler inside. The smiling proprietor showed me a range of products that ran from deer's penis to a tea made from summer grass, a fungus that grows on the larvae of bat moths, priced at $600 for 500 grams. (There were no prices quoted for moth larvae penis...
...company was conceived as a wholesale business, but the cooking aroma led passersby to clamor for the doughnuts, a demand met by cutting a window through a wall to handle retail. An ugly conglomerate, Beatrice Foods, bought Krispy Kreme in 1976 only to spin it off to franchisees in a 1982 leveraged buyout. Today the family of Joseph McAleer Sr., who led the LBO, holds roughly 25% of the shares...