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...pretty much from the time that Britain took possession of what its Foreign Secretary back in 1841 called a "barren rock." Whatever else they may have been good at, successive generations of Hong Kong people have been terrific at filling in their harbor. The fashionistas' haunts in Causeway Bay, the new 88-story IFC II building (sixth tallest in the world) in Central, Suzie Wong's bars in Wanchai, the world's busiest container port, the runway at the old Kai Tak airport that used to have white-knuckled flyers fingering their rosaries?they were all built on reclaimed land...
...study by the Boston Foundation, the $21 billion, 20-year cleanup of Beantown's once dank harbor has created 47,000 jobs and attracted $8.4 billion in "present or planned" new investment. "We have a renaissance here," says Bruce Berman, spokesman for Boston's Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, the group that spearheaded the waterfront revitalization. "It has transformed the city and put us in a very competitive position." Hong Kong could reap similar rewards. A Designing Hong Kong Harbour study predicts that a vibrant Victoria Harbour with restaurants, cultural venues and marinas would create an estimated 50,000 jobs...
...about it." In 1997, in the waning days of British rule, the local Legislative Council passed the Harbour Protection Ordinance. The incoming postcolonial administration tried, but failed, to repeal the law, and in 2002 pressed ahead with a plan to build a mostly underground highway from Central to Causeway Bay through reclaimed land. Chu spent nearly $1 million of his own money on a legal challenge to the scheme, and in January 2004, the Court of Final Appeal struck down the government's ambitions. The judges deemed the waterfront "a natural heritage" to be trifled with only when there...
...country they abandoned out of fear and desperation are now prospering, despite the continued bungling of the Communist government they understandably despise? And what about the millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of Americans who lost their lives in the war to keep the Communists at bay? Was all that death and sorrow worth it? I don't know. That's still difficult...
Among the teams Rote cited as most interested in Fitzpatrick were Tennessee, Miami, and San Diego, but Green Bay, Minnesota, Seattle, Arizona, Cleveland, and Cincinnati were all possible destinations for Fitzpatrick until the Rams’ made him their second-to-last selection of the weekend...