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...Worried about job security, Hong Kong citizens have begun cutting back, dampening another pillar of the city's growth: consumer spending. Simon Wong, president of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades, says sales at the city's 14,000 eateries have recently dropped off by as much as 20%. He fears many will be forced to shut down. "People are not so willing to spend their money eating out," he laments. (See TIME's special report on Hong Kong...
...literature to national recognition, and to promote literacy in underserved communities throughout the United States. The award's impact, however, seems to be felt most within the publishing world itself. Foundation board members, in fact, come largely from prominent publishing companies including Penguin, Perseus Books, W.W. Norton & Co. and Simon and Schuster, with a few members drawn from related fields...
...Nobody Does It Better," Carly Simon Carole Bayer Sager's words are legitimately sexy, while the music by Marvin Hamlisch uses every cliché in the composer's arsenal to build to a syrupy but irresistible coda...
...Days Later,” but his ability to create fully-realized worlds within his films is still on full display. The slums of Mumbai are a brightly colored fantasy world in which boys ride on top of trains and industry is but a cold and brutal intrusion.Writer Simon Beaufoy turns the novel “Q and A” by Vikas Swarup into a structurally fascinating screenplay, but the film’s overarching influence seems to be Charles Dickens. Dickens’s London has given way to Mumbai, an overpopulated city torn between poverty and globalization...
Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Millions collaborates with Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter of The Full Monty and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - surely we're in for some all-British shenanigans. But no, this is a social epic set in modern India, when Bombay became Mumbai and the new techno-wealth began to contrast ever more sharply with the crushing, enduring poverty of the masses...