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...more are planned or under construction. At least they were until recently, when China's Cabinet, the State Council, discouraged investment in new links as part of a broader effort to control what Beijing calls haphazard and redundant property projects. Across the mainland, developers now find themselves in a sand trap. "We're still working on due diligence to see if there will be any impact on our residential site," says Frederick Leung, executive director of Dickson Group Holdings, a Hong Kong construction contractor that delayed buying into a housing project adjacent to a golf course near Beijing after...
...story headlined “Kerry Struggling to Find a Theme,” the latest of many such stories floating around the media. Here’s a theme Kerry could try: “John Kerry: He Doesn’t Have His Head in the Sand.” After all, the Bush administration’s failure to respond to the mounting evidence of an imminent al Qaeda attack in 2001 is only one example of a pattern of chronic negligence towards foreseeable disasters...
...March 2003, has a forest in which preschoolers can don multicolored raincoats and play under a 250-gal. waterfall as they learn the basic scientific properties of water. "It's very difficult to get kids to leave," says Kathleen Reese, as she watches her daughter Alexandra, 2, happily making sand castles in the "Let Your Creativity Flow" area...
...Although nobody starves in Burma, poverty and malnutrition exist and are by some accounts increasing. Outside Mandalay, I visited the families of migrant workers who live in squalid lean-tos on the wide, refuse-strewn banks of the Irrawaddy River. They labor for subsistence wages, shoveling sand from dredging boats or hauling illegal timber. Often there's not enough work to go around, and sometimes?for example, when the dredgers run out of fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags...
...tower in Arabic) isn't everybody's idea of a place to stay on a holiday budget?the rooms start at $1,361 a night?but the hotel that has become Dubai's striking trademark is merely the centerpiece of an extraordinary effort to transform a small patch of sand surrounded by conflict into a magical vacation paradise that draws tourists from East and West alike. In 2002, 4.8 million visitors checked into Dubai's hotels, double the total for the past six years. Despite the war in Iraq, an upswing in Middle Eastern terrorism and the global SARS scare...