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...traditional gold suq, where tourists like to wander, little is left of Old Dubai. But Sheik Mohammed's planners are also taking care of those who crave that experience. Madinat Jumeirah, scheduled for completion later this year, will feature clusters of villas made with a mud-and-beam design to re-create a 19th century Arab city?oh, yes, and two five-star hotels. A country has to have standards, you know...
DIED. F. BOOKER NOE II, 74, former master distiller of Jim Beam bourbon; after a long illness; in Bardstown, Ky. A grandson of Jim Beam, who ran the family company from 1892 until 1944, Noe worked for almost 50 years at the distillery and in 1988 created Booker's Bourbon, an undiluted, unfiltered small-batch whiskey that helped establish a new market for bourbon, which had been left behind by the growing popularity of vodka...
Though the technology appears to straddle the line between science and science fiction, the era of quantum teleportation has arrived. It's not the Star Trek--style beaming up of entire landing parties; the process operates at the subatomic level. What does that mean? Quantum teleportation, in short, is the transmission of characteristics--that is, the quantum state of a particular photon, or particle of light--from one place to another. While it falls short of a capability to beam people or objects to remote locations, it's much more than just sending a fax. The original is destroyed...
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...traditional gold suq, where tourists like to wander, little is left of Old Dubai. But Sheik Mohammed's planners are also taking care of those who crave that experience. Madinat Jumeirah, scheduled for completion later this year, will feature clusters of villas made with a mud-and-beam design to re-create a 19th century Arab city--oh, yes, and two five-star hotels. A country has to have standards, you know. --With reporting by Tanya Goudsouzian/Dubai