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...where to look. Instead, all I could locate was a town called “Filadelfia”—had we known we were headed to the City of Brotherly Love, we might have saved the airfare and hopped the commuter rail downtown from our house in northwest Philadelphia. After an hour of nausea-inducing driving, I shot an eye-roll at my mom that implored, “Please tell dad this is getting absurd.” Little did I know, we were almost home...
...Islands Inc., a company specializing in island sales. There are an estimated 700 habitable private islands in the U.S., most located off the coasts of New York, Maine, New Jersey and Connecticut; in the Great Lakes region; along the shores of Florida and the Carolinas; and in the Pacific Northwest. The fact that only 150 are for sale at any given time adds to the allure of owning one. State governments and environmental groups have been limiting construction on many islands off the coasts of Maine and Florida, further reducing the supply. Islands in premium locations have high resale values...
...also championing a massive public works project - the planned Grand Korean Waterway, a controversial 336-mile canal that would link the country's industrial northwest to the southeast city of Busan, south Korea's largest port. The government says the canel will attract tourists, provide cheaper freight transport and stimulate economic development in the interior. Environmental groups and opposition politicians are calling the project a boondoggle, although Lee insists the $16 billion project can be privately funded so that taxpayers won't have to pick up the tab. "Obviously, [the canal] would help the economy," in part because it would...
...empires fell to the nation state in the early 20th century, Muhammad Iqbal, a Sufi poet and philosopher, saw an opportunity in the coming independence of India to put into practice his theories of modern Islamic governance. He proposed an Islamic nation carved from the Muslim-majority provinces of northwest and northeast India. "The movement for the formation of Pakistan was not based on religious extremism or emotionalism," says former Supreme Court judge Javid Iqbal, Iqbal's son. "It was to be a modern state, adhering to modern interpretations of Islam, particularly of Islamic laws." Iqbal believed in the sanctity...
...valid concerns that political instability could disrupt Pakistan's campaign against extremists along the border with Afghanistan, says one State Department official who requested anonymity. Our position "really does come down to what's going to get our hands on the people that are up there in the northwest quicker. And a protracted constitutional challenge is not it. It's nothing personal, it's business. We're worried about the northwest and [the new government] should...