Word: kong
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Feng, a Chinese professor who has served a key role in the development of Harvard’s Chinese Language Program, will leave Harvard for the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Feng said he will be better compensated in a tenure-track position that allows him to devote more energy to his scholarship than he currently can in the managerial post of director...
...much like sake drinking is in European or American cocktail bars. Facing stagnant sales at home, the Old World's lordliest vintners must leave their crumbling châteaus, and the New World's biggest brand managers forsake their suburban bottling plants, all to spruik their wares at Hong Kong's wine expos. The trade press is agog at a regional market thought to be growing at up to 20% a year and predicted to be worth $1.5 billion by 2017. (Watch TIME's video "50 States of Wine...
...Mystère, the Montreal-based Cirque has come to dominate Vegas entertainment with such theatrical extravaganzas as the water show O and the martial-arts epic Ka--pieces that in scope and technical éclat are to the typical Broadway show what Avatar is to the 1933 King Kong. In 2006, Cirque pulled off a Beatles homage, Love, but that was sedate stuff next to this audiovisual-balletic-acrobatic explosion from director Vincent Paterson and "director of creation" Armand Thomas. They've concocted an experience that's both symphonic and in every way fantastic...
...been tested and tweaked and retested so they can come out looking and tasting roughly the same in every McDonald's in every part of America. (Teams led by other chefs work on other continents; that's why McDonald's has used rice patties as burger buns in Hong Kong and Taiwan and now offers a whole-shrimp sandwich on a steamed bun in Japan...
...original version of this article misstated that McDonald's has used rice patties as burger buns in China. It was in Hong Kong and Taiwan...