Guangzhou: China’s quiet giant

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  • Guangzhou: China’s quiet giant

    Guangzhou: China’s quiet giant

    It doesn’t have the fame of Beijing or Shanghai, but China’s third-largest city has plenty to discover — and buy.

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  • Cleaning up hotels’ environmental record

    Cleaning up hotels’ environmental record

    Those unused little bars of soap and tiny bottles of shampoo have always added up to a lot of waste. But a new trend is changing that.

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  • 2 houses, 2 ways to view history

    2 houses, 2 ways to view history

    Two museums in Charleston,S.C., offer vastly different approaches on how to take care of an old house.

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