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...Pacific Rim is not the only place where the new "supertalls" are going up. Coming soon is the Burj Dubai, in Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. It was designed by the same Adrian Smith who did Trump's tower. In 2008, when the Dubai building is complete, he says, it will rise to a height "of well over 2,000 ft." He won't say just how high. His clients don't want to tip their hand to other builders who have projects in the planning stages. If the others knew where the bar was set, they could...
...having the world's tallest building passed from the U.S. in 1998, when the 1,483-ft. Petronas Towers in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur overtook the 1,450-ft. Sears Tower in Chicago. And then there is the endlessly ambitious city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, which architecturally is the mouse that roared: in the past five years, three of the world's 25 tallest buildings have been topped off there, and two more are in the works...
...Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War? (military and intelligence nabobs deconstructing the Bush war rationale) to ?The Hunting of the President? (detailing the Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack on Rupert Murdoch?s Fox News Channel).. The genre could expand to embrace ?The Corporation,? a scholarly, skeptical essay on multinational capitalism. All these films tried to share a bit of the spotlight in the ?Fahrenheit? glare...
...Brazil's. Africa's leading candidate, South Africa, will have to woo its sub-Saharan neighbors, who are uneasy about its growing hegemony in the region. South Africa will also be challenged by Nigeria, whose ambitions are backed by China, and by Egypt, which has the backing of the Arab world...
...would hardly know that he is the Crown Prince and de facto ruler of Dubai and the man who has directed the tiny emirate's transformation from an ancient Persian Gulf port into a glitzy international hub of spas and skyscrapers--and a beacon of modernity for the Arab world. Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum is building the Singapore of the Middle East, a free port where business and ideas can mix. On behalf of Dubai's ruling al Maktoum clan, Sheik Mohammed, 56, has spurred growth by channeling government funds, providing infrastructure and slashing red tape...