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...purchase would give the state control of nearly half the 400,000 acres (161,876 hectares) of sugar fields in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) below Lake Okeechobee, although sources said U.S. Sugar would lease back its land for six years. Environmentalists hope that eventually, the area will become storage reservoirs, treatment marshes and perhaps even a flow-way reconnecting the lake to the Glades. This could help re-create the original north-south movement of the River of Grass and eliminate damaging pulses of excess water into coastal estuaries. That would be good news for panthers and gators, dolphins...
...1990s, Big Sugar has done an impressive job of cleaning up its act, and development has become a much greater threat to the health of the Everglades. Still, U.S. Sugar executives have often warned that they might build condos someday, and environmentalists have dreamed of locking up their land...
...relevant trend here, says Ronnie Screwvala, CEO of rising movie company UTV Software in Mumbai, isn't Bollywood buying up Hollywood, it's new, cash-rich Asia buying old, status-rich America and Europe. Think Tata Motors buying Jaguar and Land Rover, or even last month's announcement that the Times of India group will buy Britain's Virgin Radio. The tremendous growth in some parts of the Indian economy over the past few years has created a group of companies that can suddenly buy assets globally. "Internationally they are very competitive and thanks to the downturn in places like...
...Much of the world would undoubtedly like to see the end of Mugabe's regime; by allowing a program of white-to-black land redistribution, begun in 2000, to be run by pro-government mobs who took farms by force and handed them to regime leaders with few farming skills, Mugabe has presided over the ruin of his agriculture-based economy. Four out of every five Zimbabweans is unemployed, inflation runs at an absurd 165,000% and millions of Zimbabweans now depend on foreign food aid. Meanwhile, Mugabe and the generals who back him have become increasingly brazen about their...
...residents of India's modern cities have for years lived in neighborhoods composed on clearly discernible occupational lines - doctors, town planners, academics, journalists, lawyers, government bureaucrats and diplomats all living among their own. Most such neighborhoods have their roots in a decades-old government housing program that sells public land at below-market prices to cooperative societies, many of which are based on their members' occupation...