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Local knowledge is essential in a neon jungle like Hong Kong. Restaurateur, architect and Hong Kong resident Frank Sun recommends starting with a drink at the historic Mandarin Oriental hotel, followed by a walk to Sheung Wan--a "very different side of old Hong Kong and one that is rapidly disappearing." Satisfy your appetite at the Tung Po seafood restaurant in North Point, above the market at 99 Java Road, a 20-minute tram ride away. Once you're stuffed, Sun says, a cab is the quickest way to the funkiest bar in town, Feather Boa. The antiques store turned...
Knoll said that differences in size and distance from the sun caused Earth and Mars to become distinct early in their lives...
...Virgin appeared to them, eventually delivering a message for humankind. The children became a focus of massive interest, and in October of that year, the Virgin's presence seem to be confirmed for many others when a crowd of 70,000 - mostly Catholics, some skeptics - saw the sun appear to zigzag in the sky as the Virgin again addressed the children. Fatima almost immediately became a global pilgrimage site...
...destruction is total. At the eruption's epicenter - known to workers at the site as the Big Hole - a 100-ft. (30 m) plume of white smoke billows into the sky, obscuring the sun and spreading the sulfurous odor of rotting eggs. On a narrow causeway leading to the caldera, dozens of trucks idle in a queue, waiting to deliver soil for the massive earthworks meant to contain the mud. Already, they have transported more than 88 million cu. ft. (2.5 million cu m) of dirt to build eight miles (13 km) of levees around the site. Dozens of cranes...
Ballard's tenuous relationship with his parents explains why he excluded them from Empire of the Sun. His father, who left England in 1929 to run a cotton factory, along with his wife and hundreds of other Brits, had a high old time of it in Shanghai's free-trade, hard-boozing International Settlement. For the young Ballard, life before the war was giddy and privileged, too - a succession of gymkhanas, parties and inexhaustible supplies of American comics. But it was all colored by a guilt-edged curiosity at the poverty and brutality he saw on his frequent bike rides...