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...casino is located on a 24-hectare strip of land on the southern shore of Marina Bay, not far from the city's growing financial district at the mouth of the Singapore River. In February American casino operator Las Vegas Sands broke ground there on what will be the city's first integrated resort, scheduled to be completed in 2009. Beyond gambling, the Marina Bay Sands-composed of three nearly identical 50-story towers-will offer 2,500 hotel rooms, 93,000 sq m of convention space, two theaters, an ice-skating rink, shops and restaurants. A revitalized waterfront will...
...With a fuselage-gray roof that comes to rest on the ground like giant wingtips, the building has the look of a vast origami stealth bomber. Created by architect Tadao Ando, it is home to 21_21 Design Sight, an ambitious design museum of which Miyake is one of three directors. The others are product designer Naoto Fukasawa and graphics guru Taku Satoh. Their mission is to separate design from the mercantile world of branding, and give it its original, purer meaning: the creation of practical and beautiful objects that improve the quality of life...
...affairs minister of Nigeria. “Given that she has been the finance minister of a major African country and has been in the bank and knows the institution...in terms of a learning curve she has very little to go through, she can start and hit the ground running,” said Tijan Sallah, a World Bank employee who has worked with Okonjo-Iweala in the past. But Okonjo-Iweala is not a U.S. citizen, which could hurt her chances as the World Bank’s president has traditionally been an American citizen. President George...
...about previous votes and statements. This reduces the chances of that issue fundamentally changing the dynamics of the race. This isn't 1972, with George McGovern battling Scoop Jackson and Ed Muskie caught between, or 2004, with Howard Dean challenging the field and Dick Gephardt and Joe Lieberman losing ground as war supporters...
...were exploding bombs. When he failed to provide information, they beat him with a cable or a riot stick on the back of the legs. He saw U.S. soldiers strip the clothes off a fellow inmate and put their feet on his head, making him lie naked on the ground for hours. Mohammed claimed that prisoners, angered by the death of an old man forced to lie on his face, loosened a tent pole and hit a U.S. soldier so hard that "he died...