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...Beijing Olympics were to be the most lavish ever. China would spend $34 billion to refit the capital with sparkling new subways and 10 state-of-the-art stadiums. The spending was the plan of former Communist Party chief and former President Jiang Zemin, who took credit for Beijing's winning bid in 2001. The Olympic projects, it was hoped, would mark China's economic growth and proclaim its arrival as a world power. Now times have changed. Last week Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympic-organizing committee, scrapped half the planned stadiums in a demonstration of what...
...last week, as units of the 3rd Infantry Division rolled into areas west of the city they were greeted by furious assaults by paramilitary forces staging out of An Najaf. When the 3rd ID departed to rest and refit for the assault on the Republican Guard, the job of containing the city fell to the 101st Airborne Division. Using two of its three brigades the 101st put a cordon around An Najaf. Unwilling to send infantry into the city, which still held upwards of 500 Saddam zealots, the Division's leaders have adopted a slow squeezing strategy...
...Galleries, which opened last week on the day the museum abolished entrance charges. It was time for a change - the objects had been gathering dust since the original opening after World War II, and something had to be done to top the rival Tate Britain?s recent $45 million refit...
...ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit. Some lawmakers worry that China?which has been looking to buy an aircraft carrier for a decade?might want to refit the ship for military use. It was sold for $20 million in 1998 before it was finished (it has no engine or rudder). The owners had threatened to abandon the Varyag, but press reports say its wait might end?if Beijing agrees to lift a domestic travel advisory discouraging Chinese tourists from...
Like many of her passengers these days, the QE2 is getting on. Commissioned in 1969, she has logged 4.7 million miles. But last year Cunard's elegant flagship had an $18 million refit in Bremerhaven, Germany, and as the new millennium dawned, she began her 23rd world cruise--a 104-day round trip out of New York City, calling at 37 ports. Of the 1,100 passengers participating in this global jaunt, about 500 signed on for the duration. Among the more popular short segments: the 15-day New York to San Francisco leg, which costs about...