London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, San Francisco has the Golden Gate Bridge, and now Beijing has an iconic structure that's likely to identify the city forever.
Inspector Giorgio Capovani laid out his array of cheese impostors: a wedge of “Parmesansan” made in Lithuania, a container of “Parmazano Fiorentino” produced in Britain and labeled “dairy-free,” a chunk of German “Parmezano” sold in Mexico.
Between acres of aboveground tombs that are a marshy city's way to inter the dead, there is a strip of land that is an empty tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
From the far side of a murky river, the only moving thing visible on the ravaged landscape was a tattered maroon cloth, fluttering listlessly atop a tree stripped of its branches.
One day this past January, Mary Kim Titla's parents left their home on the San Carlos Apache Reservation in southeastern Arizona and drove across the desert to Phoenix with a single purpose: getting an up-close glimpse of Barack Obama.
