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TRAIL HAPPY Hong Kong has a well-worn reputation as a shopping and dining urban wonderland. Less known is the fact that the hilly territory is also a runners' paradise. Perhaps no other major metropolis boasts as many car-free, scenic trails within easy reach of public transport. The island's verdant slopes provide ample shade and stunning vistas; the only trick is finding long and level trails that won't leave runners flattened before they reach their high...
This idealized landscape is a big part of the reason why, on July 15, the Barnstable Department of Public Works dismantled six ramshackle homeless camps nestled in the woods of Hyannis, that most urban of Barnstable’s seven villages. The operation removed one and a half tons of trash and displaced an estimated two-dozen people...
...Pervez was just 3. That status as a so-called mohajir would help form the Musharraf clan's aspirations for upward mobility. Mohajirs, Muslim immigrants from India, have been discriminated against in Pakistan since the nation's inception, losing out on government jobs and occasionally becoming the victims of urban rioting. A seven-year posting in Turkey secured the father's future in the foreign service and the family's rung in the middle class...
...Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the huge worldwide diaspora of NRIS (nonresident Indians). The NRIS have made it a $100 million industry in the U.S., from DVD sales and rentals, pay TV, live shows like the Bollywood Awards, and big-screen exhibition; 14 of the 24 largest U.S. urban areas have at least one theater showing Indian movies...
...gathering intelligence about potential targets and assaulting alleged criminals in territory it controls. I.R.A. members are also thought to have a hand in the sectarian clashes that have recently gripped Belfast. A year ago, three suspected I.R.A. activists were arrested in Colombia after reportedly sharing their talents for urban terrorism with left-wing guerrillas there. All this makes Ulster's pro-British unionists fear that republicans could return to full-scale violence if they thought it would profit their cause. Growing unionist disquiet about the I.R.A.'s true aims has led British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning...