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...graduate today. On Saturday, I leave for the Dominican Republic—a land of sun and palm trees and baseball and writing...
...genteel interests, a world-class art-and-science museum is being built near the Marina Bay Sands. Designed by renowned Israeli architect Moshe Safdie, the facility looks on paper to be as distinctive a landmark as the Sydney Opera House-its dramatic roofline resembles flower petals or an upturned palm. "We call it the Hand of Singapore," says George Tanasijevich, general manager of Singapore development for Las Vegas Sands...
...west of the Tigris, extending from Mansour to the Baghdad airport. Kuehl and his 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment live in the middle of the Sunni stronghold, dug into a former police station. A floor-to-ceiling map of west Baghdad in Kuehl's operations center is marked with palm-size red arrows that show the Sunni population being squeezed top and bottom by Shi'ite militia. Coalition efforts to change the minds of disenfranchised Sunnis, Kuehl says, aren't getting much help from the Shi'ite-led government. In the Sunni enclave of Amariyah, for example, his unit spent...
...Bloomberg's, would be a third-party bid. It doesn't hurt that Hagel happened to make millions of his own as a cellular phone entrepreneur before he won his Senate seat. There had already been some speculation that Bloomberg and Hagel might team up. Their dinner at the Palm Restaurant, a place to be seen by media power players, was clearly meant to fuel even more...
...Kehardthum is convinced he has the real answer: construction was started in the wrong phase of Jupiter. "An improper calculation was made for structures in the city's eastern sector," argues Mas, president of the Feng Shui Research Institute of Thailand and a developer of feng shui programs for Palm handhelds. "The energy can be very disturbed when Jupiter, our largest planet, is playing havoc with magnetic fields...