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...class to the next level.“I’m definitely older, I’ve been here longer,” Lofgren said. “From being at Radcliffe for that long, and then training this past year, the hours of training, the technical side builds up.” “We’re so excited to see [Lofgren] back, and she’s such a powerful rower, great example for the team,” Kendrick added. “She’s just a world level rower...
...Washington, D.C., with a population exceeding 1.5 million. It will have a seaport, an industrial district, a financial center, a health-care zone, a full-fledged university and a beach resort. Not since Braslia and Chandigarh in the 1950s and '60s has any country set out to build an entirely new city on such a scale...
Saudi Arabia is planning to build five of them. Simultaneously. KAEC serves as the flagship project. The Saudis plan for nothing less than to make the country more competitive globally, and they are willing to spend what it takes...
...critics, the plan smacks of oil-fueled excess, an attempt to one-up rivals on the mad dash across the Arabian Peninsula to build the tallest, biggest, glitziest structures. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes abuilding in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman who asked...
...banks have slammed on the lending brakes because they have lost so much money on subprime mortgages and securities tied to real estate, the entire $14 trillion U.S. economy is piling up behind them. Tighter lending means fewer firms can expand their business; cities can't sell bonds to build schools and sewer systems...