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...numbering about 300,000, was granted access to piped gas from the Sui fields on their land only a few years ago even though the gas had been pumping for decades and had already been flowing to major cities and towns. The government is also building a multimillion-dollar port, Gwadar, off Baluchistan's southern coast, which Musharraf hopes will one day rival Dubai in the nearby Gulf. The Baluch fear, however, that Gwadar will draw so many settlers from Pakistan's other provinces that they will become an underclass minority in their own land...
...Bombay. The city's stock exchanges account for 92% of the country's total share turnover, and the nation's central bank and hundreds of brokerages and investors have set up their Indian headquarters there, including such global powerhouses as HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Bombay's port handles half of India's trade, and its southern business district is one of the centers of the global outsourcing boom. India's music industry and much of its media are based in Bombay, as is India's Hindi film industry, Bollywood. Such a concentration of business activity breeds...
...drug scene is an inevitable consequence of India's recent economic growth and newfound wealth. It's no secret that there are drug-fueled raves on the outskirts of Delhi, and just last week, Indian authorities seized 200 kilograms of cocaine from a South African ship in a Bombay port. Authorities and journalists alike point fingers at India's Nigerian community, who they claim arrive on easily obtainable student visas before beginning to deal cocaine and heroin to the wealthy. In the capital, four cocaine busts have been made this year - after nine busts in the whole...
...James Morris in 1949 and had five children with him, four of whom survive. Elizabeth has remained superglued to her former husband's side through sex change, brain surgery, literary fame and near-constant travel. "We go to Trieste nearly every year," Morris says of that flavorful, heterogeneous Adriatic port. "It has haunted me more than anywhere else. It's the most allegoric city I know. I am Trieste. Trieste is me." Trieste was also the subject of the 2001 book, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, that Morris once announced would be her last serious literary effort...
JOSEPH J. NEUSCHATZ, M.D. Port Jefferson...