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...make money. Foreign buyers from Europe and the U.S. were flocking to the Gulf to get a slice of the oil boom and take advantage of the region's loose tax laws and resort lifestyle. Developers competed to launched one headline-grabbing mega-project after another: a ski slope inside a shopping mall, luxury skyscrapers, condos on artificial islands shaped like a giant palm tree. "It was crazy," says Khan, 25, now a marketing executive for Clifton, a real estate agency in Dubai. "Projects would sell out a couple hours after opening." He used to collect checks from clients...
...there that he saw vast swaths of the countryside covered - and intriguingly altered - by plastic sheets designed to protect against the elements and infestation. Franklin then crisscrossed Europe (from Portugal to Russia, Norway to Greece) documenting the changes he saw. His startling work captures artificial beaches, groomed ski slopes and blade-perfect golf courses; forests, mountains and cities. Through his lens, cross-country motorways become modern-day tethers, holding Europe together but blurring the distinctions for which the continent was once so well known...
...CHOPIN Call it alcohol alchemy. This talented firm of Polish distillers has perfected the art of transmuting the humble potato into a super-smooth and creamy drink. It's an excellent body warmer, ideal for downing after a day on the ski slopes. ($60; www.chopinvodka.com...
...funding is a problem, steal money from the budget of insane sports we'll never be good at. Modern pentathlon? Ski jumping? Biathlon? What's the point? It's so much simpler for Americans to throw a little ball around than shoot stuff after skiing. Cede that to the Nords...
...wedding trousseau complete with "pink feathers and see-through nighties" were all props for the bondage sessions she planned for McKinnon. "We had such a fun time - just like old times," McKinney told the court in her native North Carolina drawl. "I love him so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to," she added. Such sexual frankness rather stuck out in a magistrates court in sedate, suburban Surrey, England, in those days...