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The Peak is still the most fashionable place to live in Hong Kong, but real estate prices here are astronomical; rents run around HK$50,000 a month.
Chatterbox already knew Fannie Mae was one of the last great Washington rackets--a place where ordinary, competent, well-connected politicos and lawyers get to earn astronomical, Gordon Gekko-like sums (Johnson made an estimated $7.2 million in 1996) while working to preserve the government favors that help this ostensibly private, for-profit enterprise earn $3 billion or so a year.
Back in 1986, upon reading of a forthcoming astronomical event, I went out amongst the unlettered and announced in the voice of one who knew, “Halley's Comet is coming!”
Inside the brick tower, which looks like a remnant of the old city wall, are astronomical displays, including a gold foil map of the heavens as they were plotted in China 500 years ago.
Among the advances of the era were the introduction of astronomical calculations, chariots, the use of cowrie shells as a unit of exchange, the construction of palaces and temples, and the refinement of table manners through the introduction of chopsticks.