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...Fine of Sheldon Good and Co., the real estate firm overseeing the auction. “The market will decide how much the property is worth.” Fine said he expects the house to sell for over $10 million dollars. Remarkable for its panoramic vista of Rhode Island Sound, the estate consists of a French neoclassical-style main residence built on five acres, a carriage house comprising 1.5 acres, and an additional acre of undeveloped land. The three parcels will be auctioned individually in a sealed bid ending Nov. 3. “There is nothing like...
...Spirits don't come much more generous than this. These days, Moss is not short of remunerative assignments if his prolific output of books and articles is anything to go by, and he is living in a spacious new home on Ma Wan-an outlying island of Hong Kong where slick new apartment blocks juxtapose a largely abandoned fishing village that was once the island's only settlement. From the highest colonial circles to a working-class estate to an island home that encapsulates the new Hong Kong as it hovers between the past and future: Moss's trajectory mirrors...
...young idea. After decades of war and isolation, the country opened its jungles up to foreign environmentalists in the 1990s, and it soon became known as a hotspot for unique species on the brink of extinction. One of the rarest is the golden-headed langur. Found on Cat Ba Island in northern Vietnam, this cliff-dwelling monkey has a population of less than...
...before the tsunami cut down more than 10 trees a month to satisfy demand for Aceh's precious seumantok wood, is also thinking long term. "If we replant the trees by the lake," he says, "maybe we could increase eco-tourism in Aceh." Those are hopeful words from an island where hope has been in short supply...
Harvard is preparing to launch a spring-semester study-abroad program at the University of Havana, despite strict federal regulations on U.S. travel to communist Cuba and activists’ concerns about academic freedom in the island-nation. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and the Harvard College Office of International Programs (OIP) have obtained a federal license for a joint effort with Cuba’s preeminent educational institution. The U.S. government’s current embargo on trade with Cuba has stymied Harvard students’ past attempts to study in the country with programs...