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...early movers such as InterContinental hope to reap the benefits of choice locations and greater brand awareness by getting there first. Eric Wong, a property-sector analyst for UBS Hong Kong, observes: "If I'm a big hotel company, the question is, should I wait ten years to plant my flag in China now? The big chains have all decided, and are in the midst of a flag-planting race...
...Alnwick, Northumberland, pictured, which boasts the world's largest tree house and a poison garden, alnwickgarden.com. For English eccentricity at its best, visit filmmaker Derek Jarman's strange but enchanting garden on the shingle beach in Dungeness, Kent. At Prospect Cottage, in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, lavender and poppies poke out behind sculptures fashioned from old gardening tools and driftwood. Jarman featured the garden as both Gethsemane and Eden in one of his last films. There will be plenty there to tempt...
...maybe on the boat," he said. "I would ask questions, and he always responded." Not yet 20, it was clear that he had a deep drive for business. Between his university exams, Elkann would forego vacations to embark on internships within the company's holdings - at a Birmingham headlight plant, a Lille Fiat dealership, a Krakow assembly line. "It was a gradual process of being tested and wanting to be tested," Elkann recalled. "[Agnelli] saw that I was committed to the work. He believed you should do what you like doing in life. He believed in people developing the capabilities...
...Alnwick, Northumberland, pictured, which boasts the world's largest tree house and a poison garden, alnwickgarden.com. For English eccentricity at its best, visit filmmaker Derek Jarman's strange but enchanting garden on the shingle beach in Dungeness, Kent. At Prospect Cottage, in the shadow of a nuclear power plant, lavender and poppies poke out behind sculptures fashioned from old gardening tools and driftwood. Jarman featured the garden as both Gethsemane and Eden in one of his last films. There will be plenty there to tempt...
...There are more than 4,000 workers in this factory, which is the largest one in Surat and claims to be the largest diamond-polishing facility in the world. The owner, Chandrakant Sanghavi, told me he moves more than 10 million diamonds out of his plant every year. Diamonds were the revolution India needed, he said. They were bringing jobs and housing to people who had nothing before. In less than a decade of wild growth, the stones had affected the household economies of 10 million people in the state of Gujarat-meaning that person, or somebody...