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...story began last winter, when Gemini Office Development LLC applied to build a 22,000-square-foot clinic on land zoned for medical use. The design's details included surgical rooms and various security features, such as bullet-proof glass. Construction proceeded. In July, however, local newspapers reported that Gemini is, in fact, a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood's local branch. Still, in August, the city routinely issued a temporary permit allowing the $7.5 million clinic to open on Sept. 18 with just two relatively minor provisions: install more exit signs, as well as glass at service counters. There seemed...
...farmers' daily round is tied to the land, but their dreams are not. They can never buy their 10-acre plots, only lease them from indigenous Fijians, and the uncertainties of tenure and income mean even those who spend all their lives in Fiji seldom feel entirely at home. Almost everyone pictured in Stopover has relatives overseas or hopes to emigrate. "No country needs a sugar-cane cutter," Connew says, but other countries might want the cane cutter's accountant daughter or engineer son. Even in the holidays, Dharmen expects his sons to toil at maths and English; once they...
...require a consensus on how much carp is needed, on how to pay for them, and on who should be entrusted to bring them to the village. And such consensus is hard to achieve in Ranina. In part, this is because communication is difficult - there is no Internet, and land lines are non-existent. But the problem goes much deeper...
...Ranina itself is a relic of the Soviet system that permitted private individuals to buy and sell small parcels of arable land at market prices. It consists of approximately 500 tiny homes, or dachas, densely packed onto a three-mile square grid, although there are no stores, churches, schools or communal structures of any kind. For decades, Russians have retreated to places like this on weekends and vacations to escape the oppression of tiny city apartments...
...prices go up a lot," he says. "But home prices in 1990 were at about the same level as in 1890." Shiller allows that the scarcity of property near the coasts might mean prices there will remain high, but then notes, "We can't make any more of the land, but we can build huge high-rises on the beach...