Word: fountains
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...their abodes in the hills, from which bracing floods of chi allegedly flow, accumulating in the sea in great reservoirs of bottomless luck. Many of the principal buildings famously adhere to feng shui principles - using the expensive realignment of an escalator here, or the positioning of a highly costed fountain there - to supposedly funnel the chi out of the air and into the interiors, where its course is further channeled by canals of furniture. The Hong Kong Tourism Board even promotes feng shui tours to visitors, and everywhere you turn, there's always some crackpot heiress, anxious taipan or socialite...
...adopted by Heinrich Thyssen when the Dutch-born Swiss industrialist married Borja's mother, showed up with a notary at the Madrid museum in early November and filed notice that he was reclaiming two paintings. Borja said that the two works - Goya's Women with Two Children in Fountain and Italian Baroque painter Corrado Giaquinto's Baptism of Christ, believed to be worth 7 million euros, were promised him as gifts by his father...
...took some creativity to move the beverages to fountain,” Martin says, referring to drinks now being served out of fountain dispensers rather than in pre-packaged containers. “That was never thought of before...
While compostable materials are more expensive, Martin says that the rise in price for materials was offset by the use of fountain beverages. In the end, the total switch was cost-neutral...
...with tempura vegetables in sweet-and-sour ginger sauce, or have oysters and champagne as a pre-theater snack. Afterward, a ballet at La Scala, tel: (39-02) 7200 3744, is a magical experience. Then I'd walk around Piazza Castello beneath the medieval fortress, Castello Sforzesco. With the fountain sparkling under the illuminated ramparts, it's the perfect end to the evening. (See 10 things to do in Rome...