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...1930s walk-up building that houses Sabina Swims was formerly a hip art gallery, and it still shows: floorboards are stripped, ceilings are high, and jazz and cappuccino are on tap. Apart from Wong's signature line, you can expect to find fashionable international brands like Sexy Little Beach, Siddhartha and Kooshi. "Bikinis are a big deal," enthuses Wong. If Hong Kong women didn't know it before, they will...
...most famous connection between pop music and ancient megaliths is Stonehenge, the heavy - metal ode to the Druids by the spoof band Spinal Tap. But in real life, the key connection is Julian Cope, the rocker turned author and mythographer who makes his home near the 5,000 - year - old circle of standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. "I've been traveling for 13 years just looking at stones," says Cope, once the frontman for postpunk stars the Teardrop Explodes. "To understand them is to understand a way of thinking that goes back at least 6,000 years. They...
...promoted the right sports and launched a series of inspired ad campaigns. But the story of how Nike cracked the China code has as much to do with the rise of China's new middle class, which is hungry for Western gear and individualism, and Nike's ability to tap into that hunger...
...Times—that they might have scored the final point on this one: The Democrats’ lip service was decidedly uncouth, and that’s not likely to go over well in those Midwestern swing states. And pro-Kerry activists like Michael Rogers, of blogactive.com, can tap his fingers gleefully and cross off one more person from the list of Gay Republicans Who I Must...
...pipeline running 4,400 km from China's western deserts to Shanghai after the firms decided their returns would be too small. A planned oil pipeline covering the same distance has also seen no takers. Shell and Unocal also backed out of a multibillion-dollar project this month to tap gas fields under the East China Sea. And no foreign companies have been willing to participate in drilling in the Tarim Basin, considered China's last onshore region with major untapped reserves. The oil is thought to be of low quality, and moving it out of the isolated Taklamakan desert...