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It's hard to describe the Stravinsky Fountain exactly. A crazed hodgepodge of wild, brightly-colored, erratically moving mechanical beasts in a shallow pool of water between a centuries-old church and the brazen Pompidou Centre, the fountain is not the sort of thing you expect to find in Paris. But once ... » more

Most New Yorkers live in crowded buildings, with no more lawn or garden than they can fit in a window-box. Therefore, the great big expanses of green in Central Park are a precious thing, shared in good ... » more

Each day about 50,000 Hong Kong residents make their daily journey to the office not by car, train, bus, or bicycle, but by escalator. The Central-Mid-Levels Escalator, the longest outdoor escalator system in the world, carries people from the Mid-Levels area down through Soho and into Central. In ... » more