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...locals aren't the only ones who like to shop. More than 100 airlines fly to Dubai, carrying high-spending Russians as well as increasing numbers of Brits, who used to take shopping trips to equidistant New York City but now prefer to combine shopping with sunbathing. Then there are the vacationers from the rest of the Arab world, some attracted by Dubai's liberalism?alcohol is legal for non-Muslims in five-star hotels?others enjoying dry five-star establishments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Me at The Mall | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...firestorm could end up hurting Canadian pocketbooks. If DP is forced to back away from its U.S. commitments, the Vancouver deal could be lost in the shuffle, says Darcy Clarkson, ceo of P&O Ports Canada Inc., which would prefer to continue operating the Vancouver terminal under Dubai's ownership. Notes Clarkson: "It shouldn't happen, but it's a source of anxiety." And that's not the only reason for worry. "We need to be concerned if the U.S. Congress decides, as a result of this, to review port security across North America," says Colin Robertson, an official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 49th Parallel: Canada's Dubai Problem | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...hardly matters that when people in China Google Tiananmen, the results do not include photos of rows of tanks. Google's different versions reflect the thinking of different people. In China, people prefer to look forward. But in the West, people like to look back. The Western media are full of stories about massacres, genocide and dictatorships in remote countries that most Western readers are barely aware of. China's Tiananmen Square is such a great place, the entrance to the magnificent Forbidden City. Why do Westerners prefer to see the tanks on the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 13, 2006 | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

Faculty members prefer to teach courses in their field of speciality rather than broad survey courses, Kishlansky said...

Author: By Emily J. Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hist 10a Could Be Ancient History | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...sound education to prepare them for productive and fulfilled lives. A majority of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and apparently the Corporation think the university should be run for the benefit of the faculty, that is, that they should be permitted to research and teach whatever they prefer, regardless of its long-term relevance to students or coherence as a curriculum...

Author: By Robert K. Elliott | Title: Students Must Demand Focus On Undergraduate Education | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

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