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...Crucially, the cities developed local initiatives to raise workers skills and provide access to new jobs. Mass transit systems got an upgrade, too. Saint-Etienne, for instance, laid on a new downtown tram line for locals. Officials also polished their cities' cultural and public spaces. Local government funding in Bilbao, for one, helped transform a derelict patch of riverside into a cultural landmark, with the voluptuous-looking Guggenheim Museum at its center. (See pictures of The Louvre in Paris...
...large shrimp boat, 50 feet long or more, sits on its side in the parking lot in front of Willie G's Seafood and Steakhouse, wedged between a crushed parking lot tollbooth and the tramline rails, its anchor hanging like a noose over the roof of the tram stop...
...took off jogging again. I skimmed up an escalator, onto a tram, back down and around and finally into a dim waiting room in the remotest frontier of the airport where another crowd of about 120 grumpy people was preparing to board another long-delayed flight. The blank, defeated expression on their faces was all too familiar. It was the resigned look of the villager whose home is being sacked by Visigoths, the hopeless face of a pioneer woman watching her family's crop laid waste by locusts. The face of the American traveler, year 2008. A face I have...
...rocks, dinosaur drool, the works. When Trevor spits water into the sink, you're the sink. The movie falls short only of theme-park 3D attractions, like Walt Disney World's "Honey, I Blew Up the Kids," where you get spritzed at the end. Journey also has a runaway-tram ride that will remind you of the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but which I'd like to think is a tribute to the roller-coaster ride in the 1953 movie This Is Cinerama (another gimmick process that premiered in the middle of the original, short...
...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 bar is always crowded, he says, but the delicious drinks and friendly atmosphere make it worth elbowing your...