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...Taipei and Beijing agreed to start direct flights between Taiwan and China and open up tourism on the island to 3,000 Chinese visitors every day. The direct flights were a relief to the four million Taiwanese who travel to China every year, cutting a seven-hour slog to Shanghai, which had to be made through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring in at the maximum number...
...been that of rapid sea-level rise caused by the collapse of the massive ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. There is enough water locked on Greenland alone to raise global sea levels by 23 ft. (7 m) if it melted, which would swamp coastal cities like London and Shanghai and all but wipe away small island states like the Maldives and Tuvalu. We can likely adapt, expensively, to higher temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, but it's difficult to imagine how we could cope with the oceans literally erasing some of our most valuable real estate...
...Australian iron-ore exporter Fortescue Metals Group. And China Minmetals, another state-owned firm, offered to pay $1.2 billion in cash for Australia-based Oz Minerals, the world's second largest zinc miner. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...
...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] OLD LUXURY NEW LUXURY Dubai Shanghai Thomas Keller's Per Se Bobby Flay's Bobby's Burger Palace Bugatti Veyron Fbg par Hermès Prada Hyundai Genesis Valentino's Gstaad chalet Karl Lagerfeld's Vermont hideaway Nancy Gonzalez crocodile tote Tod's neoprene Pashmy Art Basel scoutingforart.com Alexander McQueen ready-to-wear McQ Alexander McQueen for Target DayJet's Eclipse500 air taxi service JetBlue's new terminal at J.F.K. International Airport Invitation-only Yellowstone Club resort 5-star Wynn Las Vegas offering $109/night specials Cr?...
Lauer has had a remarkable breadth of experiences during his career. Harvard seniors must be prepared for the harsh realities they will face after graduation. They will need to gather and prepare food without the aid of HUDS. Lucky Matt Lauer can recount the authentic Shanghai pork dumpling recipe he once learned from Chef Leung! Meanwhile, seniors will encounter a rapidly shifting culture beyond Harvard’s walls. Who knows more about culture than Matt Lauer—the man who has hosted not one, not two, but 11 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades! And, of course...