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...Still, the Sudanese capital, flush with oil revenue, is in the the throes of an economic boom despite U.S. sanctions. New hotels and office complexes are rising across the city, as investment pours in from the Gulf States and China. And, sanctions or not, the ultimate status symbol visible in Khartoum's most fashionable neighborhoods is the Humvee...
...Professor Hag Ateya Elteyb, director of the Peace Research Institute at Khartoum University, says the government has been unable to maintain its hard line in the face of the growing number of outside influences arriving in the country as a result of its oil boom, and also because of the Darfur crisis. "Now we have more and more foreigners and investors, there's a new thing happening very slowly as the government relaxes because of these groups," he says. "I don't know if it's good or bad, but the repressive element is going...
Harvard isn’t the only MBA program seeing a boom in applicants. On the application-editing Web site Accepted.com, Jennifer B. Barba, the assistant director of MBA Admissions at MIT Sloan, said that the school’s applications had increased by about 30 percent...
...phone in the open car window of a girl he fancied, and then calling her to ask for a date. Everyone knows someone who sat so long without moving they gave up and parked their car to wait it out at the nearest coffee shop. And with a construction boom under way, some people are now complaining of traffic jams before they even leave home, as neighbors jostle to get out of underground parking garages...
...Mast says that as the number of yachts and people who can afford them increases, so will investment in high-tech maritime security. "We feel that this is a boom market," says Mast, "and that they will sooner or later become targets...