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...Maybe not too surprising. In a city where the word taxes has long had people reaching for the smelling salts, successive British colonial governments learned to use sales of reclaimed land to finance their budgets. In the mid-1990s?the last time a chunk of centrally located landfill came on the market?the administration sold 0.35 hectares to Citic Group for $430 million, while a consortium of developers paid $1.54 billion for the right to develop another site that now includes the IFC II skyscraper. "It was cheap, easy money," says Sun Hung Kai's Nissim, who for 20 years...
Rain halted the tournament mid-way through yesterday afternoon, resulting in a two-and-a-half-hour delay...
...just sort of stopped mid-motion on the recovery,” Baker said, “and I thought I might have caught a crab. Then I realized my oar wasn’t stuck, but there was a goose kicking and flapping around in the water...
Fish’s mission to find suitable doubles combinations had become all the more pressing with the team’s mid-season struggles. Though last week’s pairings proved effective, winning five of six matches, the coach jumbled his lineup again Friday, moving Kumar up to play the top match with Chu, bumping Valkin and sophomore Scott Denenberg up to the second slot, and pairing Chiu with Beren...
...unusual. According to Dr. Marc Bulterys of the HIV/AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, advances in medicine have made childbearing much safer for the 6,000 to 7,000 HIV-infected women who give birth each year in the U.S. In the mid-1990s, treatments to prevent infant HIV infection were only 60% to 70% effective. Today, when a woman is identified as HIV positive before or very early in pregnancy and is treated appropriately, the risk of her baby's being infected is less than...