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From the 27th floor of my hotel in Hong Kong’s Central District, I had the perfect view of all the New Year’s Eve festivities that were unfolding on December 31st, 2007. At the stroke of midnight, an explosion of fireworks erupted from not one, but six or seven of the gleaming skyscrapers that lined the […]

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Every so often, we receive questions from readers regarding different aspects of luck.  We welcome these questions and make every effort to answer all the queries that come our way.  

Q: I read through your very enjoyable LUCK guide last Thursday and was inspired to purchase an elephant statuette for the home. Question: Where to […]

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Sheri Lynn Behr is perhaps best known for her rock-and-roll images from the 1970s, with photographs of iconic musicians like Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed appearing in magazines such as Rolling Stone and Cream. But for the past few years, her work has focused on an icon of a very different breed—the Maneki […]

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 A platter of ox and dog penises.
A friend and I were discussing a recent article in Vogue magazine about the restaurant scene in Beijing. When I mentioned this article to my boyfriend, he forwarded me a link to the (English) online edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel [HERE], which ran an article about a restaurant in Beijing that specializes […]

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Inter Milan footballer Luis Figo was accused last week of killing a black cat that lived at the football club’s training ground, believing that it would turn the team’s luck around following a string of losses.
Vittorio Feltri, editor of the Libero newspaper, sparked the controversy when he alleged in an article that Figo had deliberately […]

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Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly’s wedding was supposed to be a fairy tale affair. Here was the dashing favorite grandson of Queen Elizabeth II (and for those who care, 11th in the line of succession to the British throne), marrying a beautiful working-class girl from Canada. But the wedding became dogged by bad luck last […]

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On the surface of it, there are few things in life that seem less lucky than poo. (My sister, who recently had a baby, tells me that “poo” is the term of choice for new parents, who, I guess, spend a lot of time thinking and talking about it.) But actually poo has a long […]

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