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...Rooms come in three funky styles (Chili, Ocean or Urban) and the hotel's four restaurants surround a unique 12-m "wine tower" holding 4,000 bottles. REGAL AIRPORT Hong Kong's airport hotel, tel: (852) 2890 6060, is every bit as stylish as the hub it serves - and even manages to impart something of a resort feel, with outsized rooms, two swimming pools, courtyard gardens and a spa. Hong Kong Disneyland and the new AsiaWorld-Expo convention center are within easy reach. WESTIN DETROIT METROPOLITAN AIRPORT With its Zen-style water features, bamboo thickets and Asian-inspired restaurant design...
...strategic alliance between established western powers and India is beneficial for all parties involved. In addition to tempering surges in oil prices, the establishment of a rapport with New Delhi is vital to U.S. and European interests, as India stands as a hub of democracy in a region whose political landscape is tainted by Chinese communism and Islamic authoritarianism. For these reasons, leaders with diverse international outlooks, from Jacques Chirac of France to Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed El Baradei of International Atomic Energy Agency, are lining up in support of Bush’s proposal, acknowledging that...
...press-shy crown prince, Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, who became emir this year (Sheik Mo, to finance types), Dubai has established a network of holding companies, funds and corporations with more than $15 billion in overseas investments and a domestic goal of turning Dubai into a hub for everything from financial services to biotechnology. Call it Dubai Inc., a conglomerate with Sheik Mo as CEO. "We are not that different [from] small states like Singapore," says Mohammed Alabbar, head of Dubai's Department of Economic Development and chairman of the real estate developer Emaar. "They realized their economy...
...President was probably unaware he was skirting not two conflict zones - Afghanistan and Pakistan - but three. In India, Bush toured the southern city of Hyderabad to praise an example of everything that's right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what's still wrong with India. In the last few years, thousands of impoverished farmers have committed suicide in the barren, drought-stricken land outside the metropolis. For some, despair has turned to anger at the shiny city...
...Harvard Stem Cell Insitute on Western Ave. and tapping an avant-garde German architect to design it seems like an excellent start. Both faculty and students will be a lot more excited about moving to the other side of the Charles if it looks visually stunning and becomes a hub of cutting-edge research.) At the same time, I personally hope that things don’t quiet down entirely. Both as a journalist and as a graduate, I love the fact that Cambridge is forever bubbling with some sort of controversy, and protest over something or other. At times...