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...River. Visitors to Hong Kong who arrive in town expecting an easily accessible, vibrant waterfront like the ones in Sydney or Baltimore are in for a rude surprise: most of Hong Kong's shoreline is inaccessibly hidden behind skyscrapers, parking lots, utilities and highways. "I can't get a beer [on the waterfront]," says Paul Zimmerman, an executive at a local venture-capital firm who in 2002 founded Designing Hong Kong Harbour to encourage new thinking in waterfront planning. "I need to jump over road barriers to get there." And once you've got over those barriers and found...
...typically part extortion ring and part social club, according to Jong, who interviewed more than 200 teens over five years to prepare his independent study of the phenomenon. Senior gang members use younger iljin to intimidate still younger children into giving them money to finance dates and rowdy, beer-fueled parties. Jong, who teaches at Jeon Nong high school in Seoul, says gang members use the Internet to organize regional and even national networks. One favorite pastime: the so-called "fainting game," in which kids derive an oxygen-deprivation rush from strangling each other until they nearly pass...
...whole, household income is up and, especially in big cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg, people are ready to splurge. The spending boom is creating a merger wave in sectors as varied as banking, brewing and confectionery. In just the past month, alongside the Dixons deal, the huge Belgian beer company InBev has been finalizing the last pieces of a $730 million acquisition of Russian beer giant Sun Interbrew, and Coca-Cola agreed to buy Multon, Russia's second largest juice company, for an estimated $600 million. Excluding the energy sector, mergers and acquisitions of Russian firms soared to more...
...meeting of the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) last Thursday, President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 demonstrated his skill in opening a beer bottle with a carabiner. But in just four months, he will use the same tool to safely summit peaks in southeastern Kyrgyzstan that, until now, have never been visited by an American expedition...
...tiers of the Paradise that had been empty and beer-smelling earlier in the day had filled with people. The crowd looked predictable. Lots of Converse All-Stars and tight-kneed jeans. Sprinkled amongst the twenty-somethings were a few grey hairs sprouting from aging hipster temples...