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...breeze carrying the scent of exotic herbs and barbecued delights? Southeast Asia abounds with such dream locales, but two destinations trump all others: Bali and the southern Thai island of Phuket. It is on these two chunks of land, a mere 2,400 square miles (6,200 sq km) combined, that thousands of expatriates have bought tropical vacation homes. Indeed, a global real estate slump notwithstanding, Bali and Phuket's residential sectors are still booming, in part because most of the foreign-owned property on these two islands isn't bank-financed. In Bali, despite a pair of terrorist bombings...
...Boston Crème. The posh new Mandarin Oriental opened adjacent to the Prudential Center in Boston's Back Bay this week. The 136 rooms feature 42-in. televisions, rainfall showerheads and walk-in closets. The 12 suites, including an ultraluxe 2,600-sq.-ft. Presidential Suite, have Jacuzzis in the marble bathrooms as well as a 15-in. TV. The hotel will eventually have a spa (its opening was delayed by fire during construction). To celebrate the hotel's launch, it's offering a "We Fan Boston" package, giving guests a free night for every two-or-more-night...
...East. The British retailer Marks & Spencer has a homegrown following devoted to its gourmet food halls and no-nonsense children's clothes and underwear; now the store is expanding its reign overseas to Shanghai, where it has opened the first of 50 stores planned in China. The 40,000-sq.-ft. store sells everything from mens' and womens' clothing to over 1,000 lines of food including fish pies and molten chocolate cake. So if you're ever jonesing for Yorkshire pudding in Shanghai, head to West Nanjing Road...
Greenland is the front line in humanity's battle against climate change. The warming that is easy to dismiss elsewhere is undeniable on this 860,000-sq.-mi. island of fewer than 60,000 people. More and more of Greenland, whose frozen expanses are a living remnant of the last ice age, disappears each year, with as much as 150 billion metric tons of glacier vanishing annually, according to one estimate. If all the ice on Greenland were to melt tomorrow, global sea levels would rise more than 20 ft.--enough to swamp many coastal cities. Though no one thinks...
...story begins with the death of one Mrs. Houghton, a patron of the arts and the occupant of the building's showpiece apartment, a three-story, 7,000-sq.-ft. (650 sq m) residence complete with a marble-floored ballroom. Into it, for $15 million, move Paul and Annalisa, a creepy hedge-fund manager and his sweet wife. Paul wants to install in-wall air conditioners, which is against the building's rules. That sparks a feud with Mindy, the shrewish president of the co-op board, who's married to James, an obscure literary novelist who has just authored...