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...Over the past few years, the realization that Hong Kong, too, can do something with its harbor has begun to sink into the city's consciousness. Winston Chu, 65, remembers taking girlfriends for evening strolls along the harbor in the 1960s. Forty years later, Chu collected tens of thousands of signatures for a law banning most harbor reclamation works. One of his inspirations was his 90-year-old mother, Cissy, who invited him up to her harbor-view penthouse garden in 1995 and, pointing to the shrinking waterway, "gave me a scolding and instructed me to do something about...
Perhaps disturbingly, he says, “I’ve always wanted to sink my teeth into this role––I feel that I’m similar to Warren in a lot of ways...
...won’t be any fun for Chirac if his country breaks the European chain of ratification. Still, France can and must sink this treaty. If the unpleasant task were left to the perennially euro-skeptic British, the vote would be interpreted as a refusal to commit, but France can still demand something better to commit to, and should while there is still time...
...guards can't solve all this fighting," laments one convicted murderer, Kenneth Foutenette. "The only solution is the inmates." Says William Charles, a lanky con in his 20s serving an eight-year sentence: "It's fighting for race. They stab someone, and we get 'em back." Above Charles' sink, like a battle flag, hangs the distinctive red kerchief of the Bloods, a major gang syndicate that runs a lucrative retail cocaine trade not only on the streets of south-central Los Angeles but also inside the walls of the prison. Police detectives report that imprisoned gang leaders are able...
...means first accepting a basic fact about nature. When the Bomb was dropped, much was made of how man had conquered nature, exposed its deepest mysteries; in a sense, how nature, like Japan, had been brought to its knees. Yet it did not take long for the realization to sink in that the splitting of the atom not only gave people no greater authority over nature than they had before, it proved how helpless they were when handling natural forces. Since that time, there seems to have been a general divorce of human life from other natural phenomena...