Boffins in Japan have solved the smoking problem. If you can't stop yourself puffing the weed, all you have to do is buy a packet of Vita Cool, I hear from Jean-Louis van der Velde, of Lung Electronics in Hong Kong.
The producers of Vita Cool claim that: 'If you dip the butt of the cigarette into Vita Cool when you smoke a cigarette, surprisingly 80 per cent of nicotine will be transformed into vitamins . . . With a pack of Vita Cool, you can smoke as many as 300 cigarettes.' Anyway, you get the point. So come on, all you non-smoking types who claim to be aware of your health. If you want to get those much-needed vitamins, start smoking your 300 cigarettes today.
That includes you, Judith. Pat Sarwal says she saw a sign at the Hopewell Centre in Wan Chai: 'Change bubble lift to revolving restaurant.' That's a lot to ask. Nick Thompson, head of corporate affairs at Wharf, was asked by a reporter how analysts liked the company's results, which were announced over a lunch. 'Well, they liked the starters, the fish was popular and the coffee was good,' quipped the waggish Thompson. Sorry to hear that Hong Kong bra-maker Top Form is in trouble, having lost $68 million in 1995.
One theory is that the increase in Asian breast sizes has caused problems. In the 1980s, the top selling bra in Asia was 34-A. By the end of 1993, the standard bust had grown to 34-C.
This makes a significant percentage increase in raw materials. The globular nature of the expansion means that 20 small pieces of material need adjusting.
If Top Form wants a spare pair of hands in updating their research, my number is at the top of this page. In lively magazines, editors take the most dramatic, enticing detail from a story and print it in large letters to catch readers' attention. Hong Kong-based Window magazine had a feature adorned with the quote: 'The keichousaurus represented an atavism in the process of evolution.' Enough said. Did you see the two interesting reports on the front page of Markets Post yesterday? One explained that BSE means 'mad cow disease' and the other was headlined 'BSE cuts number of A shares', and was about the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Reader Bernard Long wanted to know what the connection was.