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While the Anglophile sheik kept a stiff upper lip, Dubai's inability to pay its debts is a heavy blow to an ego that easily dwarfs Dubai's gleaming new 160-story skyscraper. In the wake of the 2008 global financial meltdown, Sheik Mohammed repeatedly waved off predictions of Dubai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Woes a Blow to Ambitious Ruler Sheik Mo | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

You orchestrated an enormous display last year to celebrate the opening of the Atlantis resort in Dubai. That 10-minute show has been called the largest fireworks show in history. It almost makes me tired just thinking about what we did. Ninety-six Grucci technicians went to Dubai, and we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Fireworks | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

The message from this panel of non-scholars fit perfectly with bi-coastal elite fashion: Our food should be organic, local, and slow. These ideas have no scholarly pedigree. The assertion that food should be grown without synthetic nitrogen fertilizer (“organically”) can be traced back...

Author: By Robert A. Paarlberg | Title: Harvard and Sustainable Food | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

1 | Florida A Final, Perilous Tune-Up The space shuttle Atlantis is on a last maintenance mission to the aging Hubble Space Telescope before its replacement, the James Webb Space Telescope, takes to the skies in 2014. It's a risky assignment: the Hubble's 350-mile-high orbit is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

So sanguine is NASA about this problem - or, at least, so sanguine is it trying to appear - that while Cain says engineers will spend the night analyzing the images and data from Atlantis, he does not think the inspection will yield anything to cause further worry. "We probably won't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Shuttle: Same Old Damage, Same Old Worries | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

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