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...More than that, it's another blow to an august institution. Races at the club's Happy Valley and Sha Tin tracks are an obsession to hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong punters, who gather in the bleachers, at off-track betting outlets and in front of TVs in countless noodle shops whenever the ponies are at the post. The club's takings ($1.4 billion last year) make it Hong Kong's largest taxpayer as well as the SAR's most dependable charitable donor. Gambling money has built playgrounds, cultural centers and other civic improvements around the city...
...watch “Baywatch” and are bemused by “Seinfeld,” they cheer the Chicago Bulls and are bewildered by cricket’s stepchild, baseball. Indeed, it is sad but true that impoverished villages are more likely to have communal satellite TVs with the best, and worst, of Americana than running water or functioning schools...
From 1960 Warhol made paintings by enlarging the drawings found in small ads for water heaters, TVs - or, in Before and After (1961), nose reshaping. The canvas shows how American society is caught between innovation and conformity, says De Salvo: "You see one nose and then you see this very refined, curt nose that has a kind of anonymous quality. He uses one image as a metaphor for an entire culture." Warhol had his own conk altered a few years earlier on his journey from a Czechoslovak immigrant background in Pittsburgh to fashionable circles in New York...
Tying it all together will be the Olympic Coordination Center, a 24-hour Justice League-style headquarters crammed with TVs and computers. State and local law-enforcement information systems have been linked so that suspicious activities, such as "fans" who are stalking athletes or casing power plants, will be highlighted. FBI, Secret Service and intelligence agents working in the OCC will have access to the most detailed database on terrorists ever created. For the FBI and CIA to share precious security information with other agencies at all is itself unprecedented. After touring the facilities, Homeland Security director Tom Ridge...
...maker. Based in the coastal city of Qingdao and led by a quality-obsessed 52-year-old CEO, Zhang Riumin, Haier has factories in Asia, Europe and the U.S., which produce "white goods" from washing machines to microwaves, along with an array of consumer products such as cell phones, TVs and PC peripherals. Global sales topped $7 billion last year, while profits neared $100 million. The company has been publicly traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since...