You still have more chinese food restaurants. More Chinese Restaurants. More than 45,000, and growing every year, about ten percent. Hinojosa so how is that possible . Because people think, you know what . You have fast food everywhere in the United States. Or theres an image. So the truth is that in fact chinese food is. More pervasive, yeah. Hinojosa more a part of who we are, in a way. Exactly, exactly. Because, you know, as i like to say, you know, if our benchmark for americanness is apple pie, you should ask yourself, when was the last time you ate apple pie versus when was the last time you ate chinese food . I think for the vast, vast majority of people, they will have eaten chinese food, whether its general gaus chicken, or beef with broccoli, or, you know, fried rice more recently. Hinojosa so you grew up on the Upper West Side of manhattan. Yes. Hinojosa new york city. And in, you would say, what, a traditional chinese family, relatively traditional . Yeah, with a mom and da
Person from the conservancy. She is absolutely right. It was and still is central arc is the first great civic work of art in this country. In this young democracy of the mid19th century, mid19th century. Europeans hoped we would fail. We did not. They said, you may have succeeded, but you will never put anything out culturally that is interesting. You are nothing but a bunch of carpenters and political heirs bricklayers. What do you know . We full them. We put together our own central park. Park. It is a city that has grown. We had 60,000 people in a city that barely stretched from the battery down below to city hall park, that was new york in 1800. By 1860 or so, the city had stretched up to 59th street. They already know in the 1850s that manhattan and new york city is going to cover the whole of manhattan island. They knew that. But the build up city, when central park is being designed and built, the bills up city only went to 16th street. We need to remember central park was buil
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Of the pandemic so far. Hundreds of volunteers in mauritius are frantically trying to stop a Massive Oil Spill from reaching the islands pristine beaches. Hello and welcome. International donors have pledged 300 million in aid for lebanon five days after the explosion which devastated a swathe of beirut. Thereve been clashes on the capitals streets for a second day. Protesters are angry at what they see as government corruption and incompetence. Officials now say 220 people died, and more than 7,000 were injured in the explosion. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville has the latest from beirut. Heres the momentjust before beiruts ruin. The warehouse full of explosive chemicals is alight. Sahar fares, a firefighter medic took the video. Moments later, she and nine of her colleagues were gone. Sahar loved herjob. Shed even visit the station on her days off. She sent the video to her fiance, gilbert. He told her, get out they found her body by the ports grain silo. All he has
Trying to stop a Massive Oil Spill from reaching the islands pristine beaches. Hello and welcome. International donors have pledged 300 million in aid for lebanon five days after the explosion which devastated a swathe of beirut. Thereve been clashes on the capitals streets for a second day. Protestors are angry at what they see as government corruption and incompetence. 0fficials now say 220 people died, and more than 7,000 were injured in the explosion. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville has the latest from beirut. Heres the momentjust before beiruts ruin. The warehouse full of explosive chemicals is alight. Sahar fares, a firefighter medic took the video. Moments later, she and nine of her colleagues were gone. Sahar loved herjob. Shed even visit the station on days off. She sent the video to her fiance, gilbert. He told her, get out they found her body by the ports grain silo. All he has left is her engagement ring. Translation i video called her instantly. She was t