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...Czarist embassy, and a hostel for Soviet advisers. Renovations last year uncovered original marble floors and restored the wainscoting. With chandeliers, brass fittings and just two floors of rooms, the Lungmen rates an adjective rarely applied to a Chinese hotel: intimate. My room's floor-to-ceiling windows framed locust trees and pistachio-color Russian buildings; lying on white sheets in a fluffy bed, China felt very far away. That's likely the atmosphere the original colonial owners intended to create...
...people live longer and more dynamic lives, they want to remain active in the communities they've known for so long," says Arlyne Leeds, sales associate in the Locust Valley, N.Y., real estate office of Insignia Douglas Elliman. Leeds estimates that only 2 out of 5 of her clients 65 and over are relocating to warmer climates. A year...
...feed myself," he says. Now, on a good night, he can make $80 in profit. Somkid, a dancer in a nearby go-go bar, says her foreign boyfriends-for-the-night are revolted when they see her scarfing down scarab beetles. But as she plucks the legs off a locust so she can suck out its eggs, Somkid claims her dietary habits have never cost her a customer. "Why should it? They're delicious," she says. "Foreigners eat some pretty strange things...
...DEMONSTRATE about the death penalty at the corner of 13th and Locust, where death-row inmate and liberal icon Mumia Abu-Jamal exchanged gunfire with slain police officer Danny Faulkner...
...Start believing in your neighbors! Stop believing in these goddamned devils!" he shouted several times at a small group of women on the corner of Locust and Broad Streets...