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Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Al Gore global-warming pitch at the Academy Awards? Before they spoke, the screen at the back of the stage flashed not-so-subliminal messages about how to save the planet. My personal favorite was "Ride mass transit." This to a conclave of Hollywood plutocrats who have not seen the inside of a subway since the moon landing and for whom mass transit means a stretch limo seating no fewer than...
...sweetheart deal for the developer that would be chosen. Critics also questioned the government's wisdom-and expertise-in creating a costly arts hub without first gauging the level of public interest in it. Today, West Kowloon, possibly some of the most valuable real estate on the planet, stands idle-a dirt wasteland. Tsang has failed to advance other elements of his agenda, too. Air pollution, a perennial problem Tsang has vowed to combat, continues to choke the territory, harming public health and hurting Hong Kong's international reputation as a wonderful place to live...
...does not lack for support. "He's pretty good," says Johnny Lau, 35, an advertising worker taking a cigarette break beneath a campaign billboard for Alan Leong. In Mongkok, on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbor-and one of the most densely populated tracts of land on the planet-Rex Lau, 37, who is working in a bicycle-repair shop, echoes the sentiment. "Donald Tsang is doing okay," he allows. But then he adds a rider. "But he basically listens to what people in China want. It's like you have a say, but you don't really...
Plus, there's another reason to eat bison: doing so is good for the planet. Bison are leaner than cattle because they are still wild animals who range and eat grass; they do not tolerate confinement well, and so they cannot be fattened the way we do cattle, which we have bred to eat rich corn mixtures their entire adult lives. Growing corn to feed cattle costs the nation dearly in terms of pesticide and fertilizer runoff. The pollution and inhumanity of the confinement-feedlot beef system make it one of postwar America's biggest ecological blunders...
...terrorism. Sheikh Mo is building Burj Dubai, which aspires to be the tallest building in the world. The world's largest amusement park and biggest shopping mall are on the way. The sail-shaped Burj al-Arab has been one of the most famous hotels on the planet since it opened seven years ago; it's become such a tourist destination in its own right that it charges about $50 just to go inside to take a look-the suites-only rack-rate accommodation starts at $2,600 a night...