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...YORK A local landmark, the 120-year-old P.J. Clarke's tavern is renowned as much for its onetime clientele (Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor were regulars) as for its men's room, which features two-meter-high period porcelain urinals. These are famous for having ice at the bottom. Co-owner Philip Scotti explains that before air-conditioning and ventilation systems were invented, ice helped keep odors under control...
...This debt ranged from knowledge of wine making to polo and Buddhism but was often paid back in kind. China sent silk, paper, porcelain and gunpowder along the Silk Road. In exchange, astrological findings from its western reaches deepened China's knowledge of the heavens. The principal trade routes lay between 30 and 40 degrees latitude, ensuring that Silk Road kingdoms from the Mediterranean to China saw the same stars and could benefit from shared observations. Manuscripts depicting the movements of the Moon and planets found in Arabic and Indian astronomy, which had been shaped by the discoveries of Babylon...
...headlong leap. Tian, the reigning Olympic champion in platform diving, zips around in a Mitsubishi Pajero suv and has a closet full of Versace and Armani. His rock-star mane and six-pack abs have helped cast him as a pitchman for Amway and Bausch & Lomb. Guo, with her porcelain-doll features and two silver medals from the Sydney Olympics, is an equally alluring marketing phenomenon: she has won ad and sponsorship deals with McDonald's and Budweiser-not, of course, that she'd be caught corrupting her slim physique with a diet of beer and Teriyaki McRib burgers. Rumors...
...that excited about the gritty realities of war. He’d rather tell about his adventures cavorting with the United States Special Forces—“SF’s” for those familiar with military jargon—hence the porcelain...
...York City for medi-spa services. The airline employee, now 43, says microdermabrasion salt peels administered under a doctor's supervision have rid her face of blemishes and moisturized her dry skin. "I get a smoother surface on my face after a salt peel. I'm going after that porcelain-beautiful skin, and I want to do everything I can to have it," says Roitman...