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...dumps and shoveling it into the water has left Hong Kong with a harbor that, between the Central business district and Tsim Sha Tsui on the Kowloon side, is now just about 1 km wide?shorter than the span of New York's George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River. Visitors to Hong Kong who arrive in town expecting an easily accessible, vibrant waterfront like the ones in Sydney or Baltimore are in for a rude surprise: most of Hong Kong's shoreline is inaccessibly hidden behind skyscrapers, parking lots, utilities and highways. "I can't get a beer...
...peak, Jabal Shibam, pictured, under which sits the 12th century hilltop village of Al Hajjarah?the country's hiking hub. The fortified hamlet is one of the prettiest in Yemen, with numerous trails leading up the volcanic mountains and down to the Grand Canyon-like wadis (dry river valleys...
Prosecutors contended that Io Nachtwey was raped, stabbed to death, and then thrown in the Charles River on Nov. 3, 2001 by the defendants to send a message to her friends, who had refused to join the robbery gang allegedly run by the defendants...
...Yankee fan. I’m telling you this in the interest of full disclosure. I go to The Stadium in June, July, and August with my friends from high school. We eat Big Mac value meals that we buy from the McDonald’s across River Ave. and sneak them deftly into the left-field bleachers. I happen to believe Derek Jeter—to the dismay of most of the readers of this column, apparently—is indeed “clutch,” and I once incurred lewd hand-gesturing from Toronto outfielder Vernon...
...This was the thing to do,” he says. “We’d give a Beethoven’s 9th at Symphony Hall, and everybody came across the river. The whole place was packed...