It's home to the world's third-largest film industry and serves as a breeding ground for Canto-pop, a treacly transmogrification of Western pop-rock that can leave the listener feeling rather like a glazed donut -- coated in sugar but with a big hole in the middle.
But they are not rock-bottom cheap like those of the European no-frills airlines that originally inspired Mr Fernandes.
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In fact, for all the current excitement about rock-star bonds and the like, it is striking that the vast majority of asset-backed securities are American and involve a few types of assets, such as mortgage and credit-card loans, which generate relatively predictable amounts of cash at predictable times.
Not wanting to damage the holes themselves, they used a chisel to chip away rock samples from a chimney-like tunnel that connects two of the depressions.
His first foray involved a Las Vegas-based fantasy camp that lets would-be musicians jam with real rock 'n' rollers like Dave Navarro, Jon Bon Jovi and Roger Daltrey.
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It's that air of tragedy that makes "The '59 Sound" seem like more than a simple rock barn-burner: When Brian Fallon sings, "Ain't supposed to die on a Saturday night, " he captures the way a summer night behind the wheel can positively burst with youthful abandon, ever-present danger and fragile promise.
It should come as no surprise that this over-protected generation now celebrates dangerous and exciting activities like skydiving, rock climbing, and bungee jumping.
On trips through the South, for example, he's created playlists that have included crunk (Southern hip-hop) and Southern alternative-rock bands like Drive-By Truckers.
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These rock-like objects were the first lifeforms to pump enough oxygen into the sea and atmosphere so that complex lifeforms could develop, helping them become the beautiful, life sustaining waters that we know today.
How the band's single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit, " was a phenomenal, seemingly overnight success that ushered so-called alternative rock into the mainstream.
Mr. FLASH: I can remember at a point when I would look - when I would think about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame it was like this building that had a mote with sharks around it.
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