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...free vacation to the European center of culture. Of course, they couldn’t possibly do this in reality—after all, capitalist temptations were lying in wait to seduce and entrap those good Communist citizens. Instead, the Soviet government chose to “build their own ‘Abroad’ in the Steppes of southern Russia, near Stavropol, with a real city, and many inhabitants,” a charade which lasted until a foreign journalist got hold of the story...
...visited the Berlin Wall’s remains will know that this story is rather fanciful, but its inclusion is an interesting insight into the patchwork portrait of life behind the Iron Curtain that “The Wall in My Head” is attempting to build...
...have an idea for a T-shirt company, a type of amusement park I’d like to see someone build, and five different types of online dating Web sites that I think could be profitable. Investing strategies, thesis topics, pick-up lines—you name it, I’ve probably written a note about it. One note I particularly like questions whether a hotel brand that would cater to America’s overweight population could succeed. Thoughts...
...still disagree on how to finance those unbuilt pipelines, which are likely to cost billions of dollars. (As a measure of how expensive these projects are, the BTC oil pipeline linking Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, through Tbilisi, Georgia, to Turkey's Caspian port of Ceyhan cost $4 billion to build in the early 2000s.) "Gazprom has been looking to get into the Chinese market for a considerable time, but the problem has always been over agreeing on the price," says Julian Lee, a senior energy analyst for the Center for Global Energy Studies in London. "There is no indication that...
...Switzerland border. Many reports suggested that Hicheur had either planned an attack on the installation or had sought to pass information or material to AQIM so that jihadis could construct a nuclear weapon. Neither was true: CERN says it has nothing on its property that could be used to build a nuclear bomb, and Hicheur's limited security access didn't allow him close enough to the main collider to launch an attack on it. (See pictures of the Large Hadron Collider...