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...twinkling strip of tenements and skyscrapers line one bank of Victoria Bay while Tsim Sha Tsui, on the far side, is Central's equally slender but less dramatic companion. The manmade portion of Hong Kong is merely two shimmering halves of a wafer-thin cookie engulfed in mountains of green...

Author: By Lingbo Li | Title: Breakfast in Cantonese | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...going to play the Green Hornet. What makes you qualified to play a superhero? Claudio Paone, BOSTON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Seth Rogen | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

Beer-pong diehards and the bars that serve them have responded to the criticism by instituting some safety standards. The Hangout has separate bartenders and security guards to monitor pong participants, who have to wear special wristbands. The bar also dyes tournament beer green. "We can see who is consuming what and at what time," says Riebenack. But should players manage to get too many regular drinks in between matches, the bar helps arrange free rides home. At the World Series in Las Vegas, each team plays with 10 cups, four with water in them and six with beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer Pong's Big Splash | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

...General Assembly of jocks, some 16,000 athletes and coaches from around the world packed into 40 high-rise buildings, sprawled across 160 acres at the northwest corner of Beijing's Olympic Green. Look, there goes the Hungarian judo team, in red-and-white warm-ups! The South African badminton players, with their green and gold, share a sidewalk with the blue-clad Cuban shooter. Is Crayola an Olympic sponsor? It's a massive, multicolored gathering of young, strong and attractive athletes, a place where the food is free, the parties are plentiful, and the - well, let's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Village People | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

Next to the salon is something called the "Environmental Information Center," a place where earnest volunteers hand out pamphlets trumpeting the green features of these Games. Shockingly enough, while the barbershop was buzzing on Wednesday evening, not a single athlete paid its well-meaning neighbor a visit. You will not hear a Hungarian judoka say to his teammate, "Great practice today, man. Gosh, I'm exhausted. Want to head down to the Environmental Information Center to unwind?" Gold trumps green in the Olympic Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Village People | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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