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...buyers from Europe and the U.S. were flocking to the Gulf to get a slice of the oil boom and take advantage of the region's loose tax laws and resort lifestyle. Developers competed to launched one headline-grabbing mega-project after another: a ski slope inside a shopping mall, luxury skyscrapers, condos on artificial islands shaped like a giant palm tree. "It was crazy," says Khan, 25, now a marketing executive for Clifton, a real estate agency in Dubai. "Projects would sell out a couple hours after opening." He used to collect checks from clients and wait in line...
...coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, about two dozen Republican canvassers met to go door-knocking. The Grand Old Party tradition has become a familiar ritual for this Old Dominion group, some of whom have been volunteering since before the Starbucks took up residence in the upscale Fairfax, Va., strip mall, not 10 miles from Washington. They spent the morning retracing familiar paths, calling on homes they most likely have visited before and, as always, completing SAT-style fill-in-the-bubble spreadsheets that are fed to the GOP's massive voter files...
...overheating economy. The slowdown could come as several major new projects are launching. Early next year, Melco Crown will open the City of Dreams, a $2.3 billion megaresort that boasts several hotels (including a Grand Hyatt and a Hard Rock Hotel), a 2,000-seat theater, a shopping mall and a 550-table casino...
Inflation in India has hit a 13-year high, but you wouldn't know that as you walk around the Infiniti Mall in Andheri, a Mumbai suburb. The young men and women - many of whom are aspiring models and film stars (the Bollywood studios are not far from here) - are crowding in with their cell phones and laptops, and the place looks as busy as ever...
...were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri, do you think you'd even notice an increase?" The cost of the dish here is four times what you'd pay out on the street. For these workers, who cannot afford to buy a thing in this mall, not even a bottle of water, everything seems surreally expensive; the surreal getting inflated by 12% isn't an event...