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But soon Professor Jung claimed it was ludicrous to track the power structure of a 674-story building with a population of 500,000 using only three cases of liquor, and he ordered five more. Professor Jung added that while Beanstalk may look small, it was a globally recognized sovereign state whose power structure was not so rudimentary.

To trace the inhabitant’s identity, Dr. Lee consulted the resident directory that Professor Jung had obtained a while back by bribing a senior employee of the Security Guardhouse. All he found listed in the directory was “Film Actor P.” Deciding that sorting things out in person would be faster, Dr. Lee hopped into an elevator and headed up to Leve

It was decided that Professor Jung would take all the bottles home and, when the holidays came around, casually send them out to people he needed to express his gratitude to, like he always did. He also ordered customized stickers for electronic tagging. “I already know what to write on the stickers: Military Distribution Only. Nice, huh? Just stic

For a boy who grew up poor, Wolf acclimated himself easily to the badges of fortune.

CZ was Changpeng Zhao, CEO of the crypto exchange Binance. Born in Jiangsu province, he was raised, from adolescence, in Canada, and educated there, returning eventually to China, with Canadian citizenship. He’d run through some ordinary jobs on the fringes of high finance—including a stint as a developer at Bloomberg—before landing as the chief te