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...groups and permitting the museum's main doors on the Paseo del Prado to re-open for everyone else, the extension does away with the awkward side entries. The new wing also provides a suitable home for the necessary appurtenances of the modern museum (café, auditorium and gift shop), leaving the original 18th century building by Juan de Villanueva free of everything...
...lights. Call first, tel: (65) 9382 3438, or CK might be out fixing or delivering something. I recommend an early dinner of fish-head curry at Apollo Banana Leaf restaurant on Race Course Road, tel: (65) 6293 8682, followed by a long browse at Mustafa, a 24-hour shopping center, tel: (65) 6295 5855. They've got everything from food to electronics, and the saris and gold jewelry are cheap. People from India actually fly to Mustafa to shop for their weddings. After that, go to Clarke Quay for one of the many bars and clubs or to Tanjong Pagar...
...dinner. The hotel is one the few remaining old landmarks in the area. After dinner, pop over to the Arts House, tel: (65) 6332 6900, on Old Parliament Lane. A theater screens Singaporean films and critically acclaimed foreign works, while the café, Earshot, doubles as a shop that stocks the largest collection of local music, books and videos. If you want to chill out late, go to Haji Lane, where there are dozens of quaint little...
...authorities. "I had these ideas in my head," Sherif says of the teachings of bin Laden, whom he once regarded as a hero. "But he made a lot of mistakes, like targeting Saudi Arabia." The former jihadi now plans to take up Islamic studies and open a car-repair shop when he gets out of rehab...
...bumps in their way, public-private partnerships are almost certainly here to stay. Many of the financiers who run infrastructure funds actively drum up deals--some states allow unsolicited bids, and bankers have fanned across the country in response--and the big global players in infrastructure have set up shop too. Worldwide, somewhere from $50 billion to $150 billion worth of equity is waiting to be invested in infrastructure of all stripes (including assets like airports and water systems), and much of that is trained on the U.S. "U.S. infrastructure needs lots and lots of capital...