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Chinese restaurateurs turn up in the unlikeliest places, but Mr. Chen, 53, is a remarkable study in the tenacity that plants Golden Palaces and Hunan Gardens in cities and towns around the globe.
After they have outlived their own grim expectations, though, many then swing the other way. They confuse their survival with triumph over the disease. Vulnerability becomes invincibility.
Law enforcement authorities and computer security specialists warn that new breeds of wihte-collar criminals are on the prowl: corporate stalkers who are either computer-savvy extortionists, hoping to pressure companies for large bribes, or malicious competitors who are trying to grab more success in the market place.
Stealing and selling data has become so lucrative, analysts say, that corporate espionage, identity theft and software piracy have mushroomed as profit centers for criminal groups. Analysts say cyberextortion is the newest addition th the digital Mafia's bag of tricks.
People who have memories of being abducted by aliens become hardened skeptics, of a kind. They dismiss the procession of scientists who explain away the memories as illusions or fantasy. They scoff at talk about hypnosis or the unconscious processing of Hollywood scripts. And they ignore the snickers of a public that thinks that they are daft.
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