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...prices and move on, but after cresting a hill on a dirt road for which my rented Ford Focus is woefully unequipped, I am instantly captivated by the stunning Spanish-style hacienda. Gorgeous flowering vines climb in manicured patterns up broad stucco walls, and peering into windows I see clean, open rooms painted in bright oranges, greens, blues and reds. I’m ahead of schedule so I opt to call it a day and settle into one of the dorm beds at the heart of the rugged, beautiful estate...
...whose 8,000 Australian residents follow traditional indigenous lifestyles, seems a tranquil tropical idyll. But for professional border-watchers - officials of the Australian Customs Service, Federal Police, Quarantine and Inspection Service, Navy and Immigration department - it is the front line in the struggle to keep Australia economically sound, environmentally clean and safe from unwanted pests - and guests. The number of boat people has plummeted since the federal government introduced tough new policies in the wake of 2001's Tampa incident. In 2000-01, 4,000 people entered Australia illegally by sea; since 2002, not a single boat person has reached...
...Boulder church, the Sunday congregation has gathered before what appears to be an above-ground swimming pool on stage. "Today Gloria is being born again," says Malarrpa's Rev. Peter Marumba. "The water is lovely and clean." And perhaps warmer than this former Apex Club hall filled with around 50 mainly Aboriginal believers. A group of children pass around a blanket with martial arts star Bruce Lee on it. Marumba invites his flock to test the water. "Put your hands in it," he says. As he tells it, such baptisms are at the heart of his church's faith...
Look out, seedy vice dens, Las Vegas is going global. Macau, Britain, Thailand and even squeaky-clean Singapore--which until this year had banned the G-rated business of selling chewing gum--are being bombarded with billion-dollar investment offers from the same companies that made a strip of Nevada desert synonymous with over-the-top entertainment. The sudden urge to export Vegas-style casinos stems as much from regulatory reform abroad as from limited growth opportunity at home. Indeed, after MGM Mirage announced plans last month to build a casino in Macau, Merrill Lynch predicted that the development would...
...effort to clean up the territory's casino culture--and to profit from it--China ended Ho's choke hold on the industry in 2001, launching a bidding war for two additional casino licenses and slapping a 39% tax on all three. One of the new license holders is Steve Wynn, who is credited with reinventing the Strip in Vegas. "Right now, Macau is for the gambler--period," Wynn told TIME last month before breaking ground on a $705 million wonderland to be flanked by the old Lisboa and a planned joint venture between Ho and MGM Mirage. "The trick...