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Deal-maker Jack Wishna, who was helping the singer land a long-running show in Vegas, told CNN the singer would appear "drugged up" and "incoherent" -- often so weak and emaciated he had to use a wheelchair to get around.

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"No sane person would plant one-million-dollar land with vines, " says Krause, chairman of telecom equipment maker Caspian Networks and onetime head of 3Com, "but it really got our juices up!"

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We explain why the Ferrari 250 TR is perhaps the greatest auto-racing artifact ever built, have dinner outdoors orchestrated by a company whose mission is to reconnect people with the land and local produce, and take a quick look at a Connecticut kayak maker who's very old-school.

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The Spiral building was financed by Wacoal, a staid old Kyoto lingerie maker that also raised eyebrows with its Tokyo branch office, on prime land near the Imperial Palace.

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