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In Paris, Burgers Turn Chic
By JANE SIGAL
Hamburgers and cheeseburgers have begun to invade Paris, even in restaurants run by three-star chefs. Above, burgers at the Café Salle Pleyel.

EuroVox | 23.06.2008 | 05:30
Sing-A-Longs Fashionable Again in London


Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Knees up!

In chic modern London, there's an old fashion musical tradition that just become very hip again.

A "cockney knees up" is a kind of sing-along that used to take place in working class pubs and music halls across of the British capital. But these days a much younger, urban crowd is rediscovering the joys of a beer and a song.

Report: Martin Vogl

China's leaders make a virtue of their commercial focus in the Middle East. But its ambitions may yet run into the sands

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China thinks it can avoid Middle Eastern traps that caught America

It may find that hard

EuroVox | 28.07.2008 | 05:30
Drinking Tea With Jam and Bread at the "Sound of Music" Hotel


Do you remember the singing von Trapp family that inspired the Academy Award winning 1965 film ‘The Sound of Music’? Thousands of tourists from the United States, Japan and China certainly do.
The movie was filmed in Salzburg, Austria, which is also where the real von Trapp family lived. It's estimated nearly half of all tourists who visit the city do so because of the film - and more often than not, the tourists also take part in sing-a-long tours that visit the former von Trapp family home. The home is now being converted into a hotel - but not everyone is singing its praises - especially Salzburg locals.
Report: Alexander Musik / Eric Heath








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Self-driving semi truck makes first trip -- a 120-mile beer run
Uber-owned Otto partners with Anheuser-Busch to successfully test self-driving truck technology in Colorado.

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If something runs into the sand, it fails to achieve a result.

What does 'Run into the sand' mean? - Idiom Definition ...

Urban Dictionary: beer run

chic 
adjective
stylish and fashionable:
I like your haircut - it's very chic.
a chic restaurant
noun [U]
British politicians are not renowned for their chic.

sing along phrasal verb
to sing a piece of music while someone else is singing or playing it:
The radio station played a Billy Joel song, and I found myself singing along to it.

singalong
noun [C usually singular]
US FOR singsong