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...newsroom is a factory. The desks and walls are industrial gray, the bulletin boards on its walls lined with frayed red construction paper. The long neon bulbs that hang overhead are suspended by a lattice of steel supports that angle down from what appears to be corrugated tin. Like a Pompidou Center minus the art, a network of unabashedly exposed rectangular ducts, pipes of varying thickness, massive red steel columns, and I-beams lined with coffee-mug-size rivets frame the edges of the room...
...leaving 150 missing. Soldiers slogged through mud to deliver body bags and lime to cover decomposing corpses awaiting burial. In the province of Rizal, the Quizan family's house was flooded with water, but Roberto Quizan and his three sons and daughter managed to clamber onto the corrugated-tin roof. While waiting to be rescued, the youngest son, 12-year-old Roberto, got entangled in a live power line. His father tried to save him, and then the two other boys rushed to help. All four were electrocuted. "I've lost all the males in my family," sobbed daughter...
...well in the members-only aeries these days. During a recent race at the Sha Tin racetrack one sunny Saturday afternoon, HKJC CEO Lawrence Wong warned that horse racing in Hong Kong is facing "irreparable damage" from illegal bookmakers and hefty taxes. Horse-race-gambling revenue taken in by the club?which is less a sanctuary for the moneyed classes than it is a government-sanctioned monopoly gaming enterprise?has fallen in six of the past seven years. Last season's take was 30% lower than in 1997. Says Wong in an e-mail to TIME: "The situation [has] caused...
...since the early 1990s and by slashing senior managers' pay, including his own, by 10%. Money is being invested in upgraded facilities, such as the construction of a $51 million parade ring with a retractable roof, which opened in November, and a giant outdoor TV screen at the Sha Tin track. And the racing has never been better. In the mid-1990s, Hong Kong-trained horses were barely recognized in international competitions; last season, Hong Kong's own Silent Witness was the world's top-rated sprinter...
...Most important, perhaps, are efforts to attract new blood. Wong in September opened a special box at Sha Tin featuring Mandarin-speaking announcers and staff to woo the millions of mainland-Chinese tourists flooding the territory. The club employs "ambassadors" at the tracks to instruct newcomers on the betting process. Next up: Wong is considering a year-round racing schedule. "If we want to stay alive, we have to invent," he says...