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...Harbour - the pyrotechnics draw an audience of half a million to the city's shoreline. Less chaotic are the Chinese New Year Races, held at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Sha Tin track on Jan. 31. Local punters say that a win on this day will bring betting luck all year round. But even if your horse doesn't come in, the trackside buzz and the roar of the crowd will be enough to get tails wagging. For more information, visit discoverhongkong.com...
...Cabbie's Luck...
...Ethiopia, aid workers can't talk to teenage girls about condoms to prevent AIDS; but in Tanzania they're encouraged to. How you cut an umbilical cord can determine whether a baby risks a fatal infection, but every culture has its own traditions. They cut with a coin for luck in Nepal and a stone in Bolivia, where they think if you use a razor blade the child will grow up to be a thief. There is no one solution to fit all countries, and so the model the Gates Foundation and Bono have embraced pulls in everyone, at every...
...president was hoping to leave “Innate-gate” behind him for good, he’s had no such luck. The Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks vernacular trends, last month enshrined “intrinsic aptitude” as number two on a list of the 10 “most egregious examples of politically correct language?...
HANOVER, N.H.—Call it beginner’s luck, but Rob Pritchard sure knows how to score. Dartmouth’s rookie winger lit the lamp twice in Friday night’s contest at the Thompson Arena, notching the first two goals of his collegiate career as the Big Green shocked the No. 14 Harvard men’s hockey team, 5-1. Despite having lost three of its last four games, Dartmouth (5-7-0, 5-5-0 ECAC) looked like the more dominant team. Playing physically and outhustling the Crimson...