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...world," he says between dry coughs. China's persistent obfuscation contributed to the U.S. issuing a travel advisory warning against nonessential trips to China. And in Hong Kong, the government ordered family members of confirmed patients to stay in home quarantine. Travelers wishing to fly from Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport also had to have their temperatures taken before they were allowed to board their flights. Back in China, luxury-hotel occupancy in Shanghai has slipped to 30% from the usual overbooked 120% this time of year. A planned visit by President Bush and a World Economic Forum...
...pilots announced a disruptive ploy called "work to rule," which meant they would do all the safety checks in the pilot's manual, word-by-word, even if it delayed takeoffs and gummed up flight schedules?which is exactly what it did. Days later, a typhoon shut down Chek Lap Kok airport, totally disrupting air travel in and out of Hong Kong, and Cathay announced that the pilots' disruption only made things worse. Then the company lowered the boom, firing 49 pilots without warning?many of them union members, and some of them top organizers of the labor protest?while...
Last April, however, her luck ran out. Unable to locate her for five years, Interpol agents began checking passenger lists of flights from Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport to New York. On the April 17 flight they spotted the name of her son. More than 40 agents from the Hong Kong narcotics bureau staked out the airport and waited. Around noon, they saw Sister Ping wandering around the airport. At first she denied she was Ping, but after she was fingerprinted she admitted her identity. She was carrying her three passports when she was arrested. An Immigration...
...would reapply the lesson himself 11 years later in his $20 billion design for the world's largest airport, at Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong--the last megastructure spawned by the floundering "tiger economies" of Asia. Foster envisaged it as a "horizontal cathedral," with its airy, Y-shaped passenger terminal under the great wing of its roof. It had teething troubles at first--there were cargo and passenger delays when it opened last July--but now, according to Wan Wai Lun, corporate affairs officer of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, "it's incredibly efficient and caters to the passengers...
This Three Sisters. then, raises the explosions to the surface. The eruptions exist above the script. They happen when the actors feel they should happen, regardless of what is actually being said. While this can and does happen in a conventional Chek-hov production, the difference is that in this production the explosions are never suppressed. We not only feel them but see them. Characters (actors) almost violently grab for each other when they feel love. They growl at each other when they feel hate. They dance and spin when they are happy. The power of the production, ideally, operates...