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10 Bucket List–Worthy Restaurants Where Wine Wows

What dining experiences do you dream of having over the course of your lifetime? For many wine lovers, it’s a truly exceptional, one-of-a-kind meal, like those offered by these 11 Wine Spectator Restaurant Award–winning restaurants throughout the U.S. ....

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中国告别摩天魔咒:"高度竞赛"的游戏到此结束-房产频道-和讯网


  以摩天大楼安全为题的大片也不在少数,如强森主要的美国大片《摩天营救》、韩国的《摩天楼》等,就是以摩天大楼的火灾为主线。
  摩天大楼的环境污染也是非常严重的。在如今全球碳中和的大时代下,各国更加注重环保和碳排放。但是摩天大楼对整个城市环境的污染很重,从玻璃幕墙的光折射污染、噪声污染,到城市的热岛效应,再到夜间造成的光污染等,都是对整个城市的二次加害。
  更重要的是,摩天大楼一直是亏本的生意,可以说是一座吸血楼。人们一直认为摩天大楼是经济繁荣的象征,其实它本身却更像一个资本圈钱过后的泡沫。
  
  1930 年代的纽约帝国大厦建成后,空置长达五年之久,真正的价值回归要等到建成二三十年之后;曾经“深圳第一高楼”的地王大厦,租金水平也只是深圳商业市场的� ....

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A Sidewalk Clock Standing Proudly in Queens Gets a Restoration


A Sidewalk Clock Standing Proudly in Queens Gets a Restoration
Local leaders raised the funds, but mysteriously, there was no record of what the battered timepiece looked like when it was installed more than 100 years ago.
In search of lost time: the provenance of the rare ornate clock at Jamaica Avenue and Union Hall Street was a longstanding mystery until researchers recently discovered a similar model in a 1908 catalog of a long-vanished Brooklyn manufacturer.Credit.Photographs by Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times
April 30, 2021
On a busy strip of Jamaica Avenue in Queens, where vendors hawk cellphone cases outside shops selling off-price wigs, tattoo services and fungal-nail care, stands one of downtown Jamaica’s most dignified residents. This street-corner denizen is an ornate cast-iron sidewalk clock, more than a century old, attired with archaic formality like a proud codger who still wears his threadbare suit every day, even as the world passes him by. ....

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