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Well, Labor Day is past, the Hamptons are emptied, and the "big money" is supposedly back on the Street this week - and wouldn?t you know it, the economy saw fit to greet the returning rich folks with a bit of good news. (Those guys get all the breaks...
...airport-design features, such as the 144 check-in counters that can be used by any airline, and a video display system that encourages incoming passengers to keep moving briskly along corridors to the huge customs-and-immigration area, where funky, massive bas-relief scenes of New York greet them. The airport is counting on federal agencies to increase staff at peak times; the building's public areas are designed to handle as many as 3,200 arriving passengers an hour, 60% more than...
...Africans, the Chinese are benefactors who send doctors and engineers and build roads, stadiums and hospitals. As I barrel down the smoothest stretch of tarmac (which was built by a Chinese firm) connecting the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Mombasa, village children greet me, with my half-Asian features, by cheering: "China road, China road." In Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where Zheng He's ships once landed, the city's biggest sports facility is called the Chinese stadium. "It is very simple," says Zhu Xiaochuan, China's economic and commercial counselor in Nairobi, as he sips imported jasmine tea. "Africa needs...
...edge of the city. A strange choice, you would think: It was in the same venue, on August 17 1991, that the coup leaders had convened to launch their operation. Those old men now live mostly in quiet retirement. One, former Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, recently turned out to greet the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. Yazov is apparently a big fan. Kryuchkov is still around too, unrepentant, and occasionally willing to talk about Putin. He was quoted as saying the president was doing a very good...
...other side of the warm welcome, the employee’s greatest fear is accidentally greeting the same customer twice. This is a perfectly understandable occurrence, especially on busier days. But while most customers are very patient with employee lapses, the double-greet usually results in an unsettling stare. This stare is more quizzical than disdainful, but it still strikes fear into the heart of even the most intrepid sales associate. Does courtesy, however redundant, warrant an apology? Would a rapid retreat into the camouflage of the throw-pillow racks be an act of cowardice, or one of judicious modesty...