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For years, China crafted its own foreign policy with a heavy ideological content, but in the past decade it has shifted to a more hard-nosed policy based on practical interests. Foreign investment and technology are now key to its modernization program.
Or that the Milwaukee Braves "nosed out" the Philadelphia Phillies? (Whose nose? Hank Aaron's? Eddie Matthews'? Jimmy Durante's?)
In their glory days, they patrolled Philadelphia's mean streets, searched buildings and sniffed for bombs and narcotics. When they retired, the hounds of the Philadelphia police department's canine unit traditionally got pensions in the form of free dog food and veterinary care. But on March 1, Police Commissioner...
Guests at the oceanside Hyatt are festooned with exotic flowers and offered colorful concoctions before they reach the check-in desk of the half-indoor, half-outdoor lobby. (What would you do with those lovely rugs after a driving rain? Replace them, replies the managing director, smug as a puffin...
Perhaps the most popular fantasy of all involves a visit with the resort's most distinguished guests: eight Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins, in residence under the care of marine-mammal veterinarians Rae Stone and Jay Sweeney. Rather than ricocheting around a concrete pool, the dolphins frolic in a protected saltwater...