Word: kowloon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INACTION HERO It's not unusual to see likenesses of actors and athletes in toy stores, but it is unusual to see one of Herbert Hoover. And yet, thanks to the Formative International Co. of Kowloon, Hong Kong, the 31st President is now a doll, one of four in its Leaders of the World series. The others: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison. Our doll's marked-down price...
...chief virologist with the Hong Kong Department of Health, was sorting through the usual load of blood and tissue specimens sent to her laboratory from nearby hospitals, typically about 80 a day. On this particular day--Tuesday, May 20, 1997--one specimen came from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, at the far side of Victoria Harbor, where a three-year-old boy had been admitted with what turned out to be a fatal respiratory illness. Her lab quickly determined that the infectious agent was some type of Influenza A, one of two broad classes of flu virus that commonly affect...
...picked him up at the Kowloon Ramada on Monday morning. As she drove back to her laboratory, high in Hong Kong's craggy western hills, De Jong turned to her and asked mildly, "Do you have any idea what virus you sent...
...first-time visitor, the harbor promenade on the Kowloon peninsula side can appear as the city's focal and most active point. During the day, the harbor, despite the recent threats of rising pollution, typhoons and the practice of land reclamation, houses the world's busiest container port, with more than 100 ships arriving daily. Then, as the late hours of the afternoon arrive, the Indian fortune tellers, the joggers and California-style bladers, the myriad of couples waiting for dusk to come, all provide picturesque detail to the majestic scenario of the bay and Hong Kong Island's towering...
...optimism, confirmed by opinion polls as well as by the uniquely frenetic dynamism of the recent months, when a $20.1 billion public works program was initiated. As part of this huge planning project, the world's longest suspension bridge, linking the island of Lantau with the peninsula of Kowloon has been opened...