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...quiet residential street three blocks from Jumeira Beach, you can stroll down to the sand at sunset and dive into the cool Gulf waters, evoking the Dubai of a generation ago when it was a fishing backwater, not the rich beneficiary of our oil addiction. In a conscious snub to Dubai's megahotels, the Maison has only a tiny signpost outside. The 22 rooms don't even have numbers; each is named for a city in South Asia or the Middle East and decorated with furniture collected on the managers' travels around those regions...
...While the data doesn't show is if all this increased searching correlates with increased buying. But it does show a dramatic change in how people are thinking about shopping and inching ever closer to a wired, price-conscious ideal...
...Gaza hospital. The wall above his head in the intensive care unit is plastered with the faces of dead Palestinian fighters that supporters believe have gone on to paradise. Yusef was nearly one of them, but he survived - minus a leg that was amputated below his knee. Barely conscious, he cracked a joke with his comrades from the Salaheddin Brigades jostling around his bed. "It looks like my leg has reached paradise before I did," Yusef said with a weak laugh...
...after I tipped the movers was sit down on a box, crack open my laptop and sniff the air for wi-fi signals. And I found them: my apartment was chock-full of delicious, invisible data, ripe for the plucking. You couldn't say I made a conscious decision at that exact moment to become a criminal. But it definitely got a lot harder not to be a criminal...
...Crucial to achieving that kind of reputation is the Norwegian fund's commitment to ethical investing. Keeping to guidelines it set down in 2004, the fund pledges to press firms it invests in to improve the protection of human rights - particularly those of child workers - and to be environmentally conscious. That social and ecological responsibility, the fund insists, is key to safeguarding its own financial returns. Take children's rights. If children are denied schooling and forced to earn a living prematurely, they grow up to be less productive workers with fewer skills. While a current employer may benefit from...