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Outside the compulsively groomed resort areas, garbage grows in small piles on the side of streets on the island's growing urban areas, festering in the tropical sun. Much of what is collected finds its way to the TPA Suwung landfill, about 10 km outside the sprawling provincial capital of Denpasar. Every day trucks add up to 800 metric tons of waste to quivering piles of tattered cloth, leftover food and the ubiquitous plastic water bottles. Virtually the only waste management at Suwung comes in the form of scavengers who brave the heat to comb through the mountains of trash...
...hole golf course and a five-star hotel with a spa and top-class restaurants. You want, in other words, Corniche Bay, a development of 115 such villas and a 75-bedroom hotel on the secluded southwestern tip of Mauritius. It's one of a few high-end resorts on the island that, for the first time, allow nonresident foreigners to buy property. Each villa has its own uninterrupted sea view angled toward the sunset, an infinity pool and a lush, landscaped garden. The resort is huge, mostly car-free and backed by spectacular volcanic peaks. Sales open...
...Corniche Bay will, over the course of an average working life, save in tax what they paid in the first place. Effectively, the villa is free, while the owner can even earn extra cash by renting it out. And what did the Mauritian government name its brainwave? The Integrated Resort Scheme - or irs. It's enough to make the tax man see green. www.cornichebay...
...pressures that have instigated this trend, we believe that it is ultimately harmful to the welfare of today’s youth. Americans have a well-deserved reputation for suing at the slightest provocation. Whether as consumers, employees, patients, or parents, the courts are often the option of first resort, instead of the last. Schools have not been immune to our litigious society—on the contrary, they have been a focal point. In Adrian, MI, a mother sued when her hemophiliac son was punched by classmates; in Warren, OH, parents sued when their developmentally delayed daughter fell...
...ahead of schedule, included a new rationale for why he called it in the first place. He had been forced to act, he said, because unnamed conspirators had schemed with members of the judiciary to destabilize Pakistan and upset a return to democracy. "Against my will, as a last resort, I had to impose the emergency in order to save Pakistan," he said. "The conspiracy was hatched to destabilize the country. I cannot tell how much pain the nation and I suffered due to this conspiracy...