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...Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Northumberland's Alnwick Gardens, scene of the first Harry Potter film. With full disabled access, the giant, $8.5 million complex, which is constructed on stilts around 16 mature lime trees, hosts private and corporate events, and includes a 120-seat restaurant, two classrooms and two private dining rooms. The tree-house designs of Bremen, Germany-based Baumraum architect Andreas Wenning are more modest in scale, but lean...
...trade winds. With China's economic engine requiring ever more energy, the country is damming a significant part of its length of the Mekong River, threatening fishing and transportation in the five nations downstream. In 1998, China banned some domestic logging to protect its dwindling forests, but the Asian giant's appetite for disposable chopsticks and plywood furniture has hardly abated. Log imports--second only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle of next year, Brazil...
...works in a makeshift office on Park Avenue, with boxes piled as deep as the lawyers outside his door and with the nasty business of potential indictments--not insurance--front of mind. But the man who over four decades built and ran American International Group, the global insurance giant, is as focused as ever. He still manages two AIG offshoots, Starr International and C.V. Starr, investment firms that control billions of dollars of AIG stock. He's a regular on the Manhattan dinner circuit, where society's glitterati greet him warmly. He works out daily with the same discipline that...
...industry giant lionized for his steel will and feared for his short fuse, Greenberg landed at Omaha Beach on D-day and was awarded a Bronze Star in the Korean War. Many say he is an enigma, that nobody really knows him. But perhaps he is not all that complicated. Everything he's done at AIG--hobnobbing with the elite, constant globe trotting, charitable giving, his 24/7 schedule--was aimed at one thing: making the company a more formidable global competitor. This is a man who knew how to play hardball to get what he wanted. A lawyer before...
...giant of cricket, Glenn McGrath does a fair impression of a regular guy. Hanging about in the members' area of the Sydney Cricket Ground on a chilly afternoon last month, the fast bowler might have kept chatting with New South Wales State of Origin rugby league players, who happen to be milling about, too. But his attentions turn to the reporter, whom he knows a little. He agrees to talk outside, looking out over the ground, even though those things on his arms look a lot like goosebumps. Earlier, he'd noticed some of the members playing tennis. He says...