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...Toronto locations. But the most serious problem facing the family enterprise is London's $6.9 billion Canary Wharf project. A 71-acre office complex in the out-of-the-way Docklands area, it is the largest commercial property development in Europe. London faces a glut of 40 million sq. ft. of unused commercial space, though, and 40% of Canary Wharf remains vacant. Even that figure is deceptive, because many of Canary Wharf's tenants only signed on when O&Y offered to buy out their existing leases and pay their relocation costs...
...many ways it is. Angkor Wat, a Hindu shrine dedicated to the god Vishnu, is one of hundreds of stone structures built a thousand years ago over a 200- sq.-mi. area. Although largely abandoned for five centuries, more than 270 of the temples have survived intact. But little is known about the society that created one of the architectural wonders of the world...
...deterioration of the Angkor monuments, scientists need to explore what made the ancient society work. At a minimum, they have to understand the remarkable water-management system created by the Khmers. Beginning in the late 9th century a succession of Kings constructed enormous reservoirs, some as large as 20 sq. mi. These barays and a complex gravity-fed network of moats and canals provided an almost continuous supply of water so that three rice crops a year could be grown. That production enabled Khmer Kings to extend their empires and build temples to their own divinity. It is the destruction...
...real problem, Navy insiders grumbled, was bad judgment at the top. Said an officer: "Initially there was no high priority for this assignment. We were told to look for the ship, no more." Meanwhile the vessels and aircraft best equipped for spotting the freighter in the 800,000- sq.-mi. area, the aircraft carrier America battle group, were carrying out exercises hundreds of miles away...
...assault represents an alarming escalation in the hostilities that are rapidly pushing Christian Armenia and Muslim Azerbaijan toward all-out war. Over the past four years the two republics have pressed their territorial claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, a 1,700-sq.-mi. piece of turf located within Azerbaijan's boundaries but home mainly to Armenians. Until the breakup of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan held the upper hand, owing to military support from units of the now disintegrating Seventh Army. The embattled Armenians enjoyed sympathy from many of Moscow's liberals and democrats, who disliked the collusion between Azerbaijan and Kremlin...