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...West Palm Beach...
...town, he built a sanctuary for gorillas, chimpanzees, wild pigs, deer and other animals rescued from hunter traps or injured on the roads. His self-financed foundation is part scientific institute, part environmental lobby, part zoo. His latest project is to have Port Gentil's schoolchildren plant thousands of palm trees around town. If his oil industry friends thought he was crazy before, he confides, they now openly refer to him as Deng Deng, a term from the local Fang language that loosely translates as "Hot Brains...
...Dubai is the Middle East's capital of quirkiness, with its man-made islands constructed as luxury housing estates visible from space in the form of palm trees and a map of the globe. Local recreation includes camel trekking in the desert, snorkeling in the Gulf or skiing down indoor slopes. Becoming an international metropolis also has its down side: Besides the soaring real estate prices and inflation estimated at 20%, other undesirable features of life in the new Dubai include massive daily traffic jams, a rise in prostitution, and growing discontent among the legions of mostly Asian laborers imported...
...odors and motes rise and swirl as she cleared a place for him to step. When she came for her wage, he noticed that his writing pencil was still gripped tight in his hand, so he ceremoniously placed both it and a penny in the girl's open palm. She glanced up quizzically, registered his smile, winked her good eye and plunged the pencil like a bodkin into one of her braids, shouting "Danken sie!" as she dashed off down ... Worth Street, Skaggs saw on the sign bolted to the lamppost. The single Negro among the city's lamplighters stood...
...better developed than the countries that would later become Asia's tigers. In the late 1950s, Ghana's per capita GDP was equivalent to South Korea's; today it is about $550, compared with South Korea's $16,000. Nigerians still lament that they once had a massive palm-oil industry but it has long since been overtaken by such Asian countries as Malaysia, which were better run and less corrupt...