林氏集團主席林建中表示，這座世貿遺址附近的50層酒店，位於金街（Gold St）和珍珠街（Pearl St）交口，將命名為林氏金珍珠大廈（Lam's Golden Pearl Plaza），也是第一家打出林氏招牌的酒店。
林氏集團目前還有另外八間酒店建築工程仍在進行中。預計於明年中旬開始，每兩個月將有一間正式開始營業。不僅在華人圈，在主流業界也是規模少見的旅館酒店營運業者。紐約市主流商業周刊「克萊恩」（Crain's NY Business Magazine）在11月初報導指出，林氏集團將會在未來三年內為紐約市大都會增設超過三千多個酒店房間。
至於正在興建中的則還有位於時報廣場（Time Square）附近兩棟33層高、五百個房間的四星級酒店；布碌崙下城福頓商場（Fulton Mall）隔壁的喜來登；中城隧道（Midtown Tunnel）附近的希爾頓（Hilton）；位於中城的Howard Johnson和Best Western Convention Center Hotel；位於蘇荷村（Soho Village）的喜來登；以及荷蘭隧道（ Holland Tunnel）附近的希爾頓。
下面引用由Yutaka在 2006/12/22 08:37am 發表的內容： with due respect, physiognomy is a complex process that requires judicious apprehension, there're much more in the face that meets the eyes, u can't just based on a person's nose t ...
是啊! 我也在這裡 BS.
一些人也認為祖先的陰墓地是影響其子孫後代外貌的惟一一個因素.
Yutaka
發表於： 2006/12/22 08:37am
with due respect, physiognomy is a complex process that requires judicious apprehension, there're much more in the face that meets the eyes, u can't just based on a person's nose to say he's a millionaire or not.....
School loses $20 million gift after donor felt insulted By The Associated Press November 12, 2006
MIAMI — A $20 million gift for a university medical school evaporated with a phone call after the donor thought the university president insulted him.
Herbert Wertheim took back the gift offer after the call last week and resigned from Florida International University's board of trustees.
"The conversation just wasn't what it should have been. There were things said that shouldn't have been said, and Humpty Dumpty is broken," Wertheim said.
The loss of the businessman's money also meant the loss of a matching $20 million grant from the state, and it means Wertheim's name will no longer go on the medical school.
Wertheim, who made his fortune manufacturing ophthalmic equipment, had wanted to defer some payments on the gift until 2009 for tax purposes, despite agreeing to deliver a lump sum within 30 days of naming the school after him Sept. 29.
In the phone call, he said, university President Modesto "Mitch" Maidique told him he had gotten the naming rights "on the cheap" and the university "could now get $100 million for it."
Maidique responded in a letter Thursday, apologizing and leaving the door open for further negotiations but saying that receiving the $20 million in a lump sum had been "pivotal" in the naming-rights agreement because it ensured the state would match the gift.
"You have been a friend of the university's and of mine for almost 20 years. If I was unclear during our conversation and I unintentionally hurt you, I apologize," he wrote.
The university's media office didn't return calls. But school-board chairman David Parker said he was confident other donors would step forward.
Wertheim, chairman and chief executive of Brain Power, joined the school's foundation board of directors in 1988 and led its first capital campaign, raising $204 million in four years.
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