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What Global Warming? Dubai is reportedly building the world's first refrigerated beach; heat-absorbing pipes running under the sand will keep the surface of the beach from getting too hot, and giant wind-blowers will cool suntanners. The idea is to prevent the wealthy guests of the neighboring Palazzo Versace hotel from burning their delicate feet on the searing hot sand. If all else fails, they can always go back to that centuries-old device - shoes. (See 10 things to do in Dubai...
...Controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands is yet another high-flying company that has been caught out by the global credit crunch and crashing economy. Adelson, who is credited with helping to revitalize Las Vegas with his lavish Venetian and Palazzo resorts, has become a well known figure in Asia, where in recent years he has spent billions building new casinos and hotels in the Chinese enclave of Macau. When Singapore decided several years ago to boost its economy by becoming a tourist destination, the government of the conservative little city-state took the controversial step of legalizing...
...amongst the Neapolitan people, where he might have not gotten a wholly warm welcome. More than 1,000 police were called up for the event, and tension was running high, with several dumpsters upended and constant chanting against the government. In a post-meeting press conference at the Palazzo Reale, where past kings resided, Berlusconi vowed to "make Naples bloom again...
...past century, is the automobile industry. "Italy is known as the place where the most beautiful cars are made," says curator Patrizia Pietrogrande. "Ferrari and Alfa Romeo are representative of Italian elegance and style." Fittingly, then, a spectacular array of cars greets visitors as they arrive at the neoclassical Palazzo. Contemporary models include the Ferrari driven by Michael Schumacher when he clinched the company's fifth consecutive Formula One Championship in 2003, and the Ducati Desmosedici motorbike that bore Australian Casey Stoner to victory at the 2007 MotoGP World Championship. But television has acquainted us with these streamlined, postmodern missiles...
...network that will operate like an omniscient global calculator, an advanced radar satellite technology and a simulator for Italy's high-speed train. Seen alongside the wealth of objects from previous decades, this is a deflating measure of Italy's uninspiring present tense. Yet the very success of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, which is rapidly building a reputation for thoughtfully curated exhibitions, is cause for good cheer - as this exhibition shows, Italy may have lost speed, but it still has a gift for delighting in the finer things in life...