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...city now has its best chance for decades to put that right. The site of the planned government headquarters?4 hectares reclaimed from what was once HMS Tamar, a British Royal Navy base?will adjoin 18 hectares of Central waterfront now being filled in. Two other major harborfront sites?40 hectares in West Kowloon slated for a cultural center and the former Kai Tak airport?are now in planning stages. "These are three very important pieces in the jigsaw of the city," says Bosco Fung, Hong Kong's Director of Planning. "Once finished with these three, we will have...
...that attacked the use of National Health Service (nhs) resources on treatments they said were unproven. An estimated 3 in 10 local health authorities in Britain offer alternative therapies to patients, and the nhs runs and funds an outpatient clinic and five hospitals that provide homeopathic treatments, including the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital. Doctors there are all trained in orthodox medicine and complementary disciplines. Dr. Saul Berkovitz, who runs the hospital's acupuncture clinic, says their $6.2 million annual allocation from state coffers is well spent. According to patient surveys, more than 60% of the 30,000 treated there each...
...people breathlessly wanted to know how it felt to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth at Wimbledon and what they had said (The Queen: "It was a very enjoyable match, but you must have been very hot on the court." Althea: "I hope it wasn't as hot in the royal box.") During a lunch given her by New York City's Mayor [Robert] Wagner at the Waldorf, Althea managed to make a speech. "God grant that I wear this crown I have won with dignity," she said. "I just can't describe the joy in my heart...
...speaking style has a lot more street cred than Brown's. Blair himself is the product of an Edinburgh school, Fettes, that is often called the Scottish Eton. A lot of institutions that used to symbolize and perpetuate inequality in Britain seem to have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about Eton? What lessons is it imparting today, to what kind of boy? Is it manufacturing smug toffs, or are its students being equipped to make an honest living in a more classless, complex world? A visitor to the school...
...monarch to be perfect; it's his job to keep his imperfections to himself. Thailand's 78-year-old King, the longest-ruling royal in the world, has done this with particular success. As we watched the old-fashioned titles and costumes assemble in Bangkok last week, it was possible to speak, unlike Richard II, of the life-not death-of kings and kingship...