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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...London Taxpayers to Parliament: We Are Not Amused Dozens of British lawmakers are facing scrutiny over leaked expense-report claims ranging from home mortgages to moat (yes, moat) maintenance. While most claims are within legal limits, their dizzying scale has sparked an outcry. Among the offenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

...locals, you can retreat into the cool, moist refuges of the ancient stone homes, most with walls so thick that air-conditioning becomes redundant. One of my favorite places to chill: Getsemani, the tiny European-style section of the Old Town - once the poor neighborhood just across the moat but now the cool Greenwich Village-style area of the city. Getting around the Old Town is a cinch; cabs cost about 5,000 pesos ($2.50) anywhere within the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loving My Time in Cartagena | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...them had served as locations for the film version of West Side Story. When you consider that the Jets and the Sharks used to flash their switchblades not far from where the Metropolitan Opera now stands, it's amazing that the island of culture didn't come with a moat and a drawbridge. (See 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lincoln Center's New Come-Hither Design | 2/19/2009 | See Source »

...planned complex of 72-storey towers that could be deemed a monument to Deng Xiaoping's notion that "to be rich is glorious." Plans call for three glass-and-steel towers linked by bridges and topped by a giant, disco ball-inspired sphere. It will be surrounded by a moat and will house several hundred apartments, a luxury hotel, a revolving restaurant, a gym, a doctor's office and a tanning salon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Richest Reds in China | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

...from being planned. One goal is not separate from the other. But governments still tend to focus much of their time and money on our last lines of defense--explosives sniffers at airports and haz-mat suits for firefighters. That's the equivalent of building a really deep castle moat and waiting for the invaders to arrive. "Unless you can arrest [terrorists] before they get to execution stage, your chances of averting bloodshed and death come down to luck," says a French former counterterrorism official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotting the Terror Threat | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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