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...styles had long since yielded to Western fashion. Last year Sarajevo's city council launched an option of religious education for children in kindergarten; so far only Islam is on offer. The city's mosques are packed, including the huge King Fahd Mosque and cultural center, which Saudi Arabia built in 2000 - at a cost of about $12 million - and still maintains. And in April, investors from the Gulf opened a $55 million upmarket shopping center, which bans alcohol and gambling and has a worship room. "We spent the morning shopping, and prayed together there," says Husic...
Veta la Palama is different. In 1982, the family that owns the Spanish food conglomerate Hisaparroz bought wetlands that had been drained for cattle-farming and reflooded them. "They used the same channels built originally to empty water into the Atlantic," explains Medialdea. "Just reversed the flow." Today, that neat little feat of engineering allows the tides to sweep in estuary water, which a pumping station distributes throughout the farm's 45 ponds. Because it comes directly from the ocean, that water teems with microalgae and tiny translucent shrimp, which provide natural food for the fish that Veta la Palma...
...Michelle Obama, the great-great-granddaughter of slaves, up close is to finally see America up close. Until her arrival, most Americans did not know the White House and Capitol were built by slaves. For those who contributed so much to our nation, the time has arrived for their progeny, the Michelles and Baracks, to receive their just due. Helen H. Gentry, DETROIT...
...start-ups, including the legendary and doomed NeXT Computer, where he was wooed by Jobs. He arrived at Apple in 1997, about the time Jobs returned from exile and, as one of Jobs' trusted lieutenants, ran the hardware side of the company. The candy-colored gumdrop iMac he built helped haul Apple back from the brink. When Jobs decided that Apple should make a digital-music player, it was Rubinstein who discovered a tiny hard drive at Toshiba's research labs that would be the soul of the new machine: the iPod. (See the top iPhone applications...
...meeting wasn't acrimonious, and he believed the door was open should he ever want to return. Jobs did not beg him to stay, and they worked out a plan for an orderly transition. Rubinstein went south and built his house, inventing a clever firefighting system that pumps water from the swimming pool (the closest fire department is 35 minutes away...