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Ross has grand plans for IUON and hopes to make it the largest nursing school in the world. He has sunk at least $10 million into the 50,000-sq.-ft. (4,600 sq m) campus on 10 acres (4 hectares) of land in gorgeous St. Kitts. Ross has attracted more than 20 faculty members from the U.S. with competitive salaries of $70,000 to $80,000 a year, plus overseas tax breaks. "The island life is definitely a bonus," says assistant provost Frank Wagner...
...particularly in investment management and construction. On the former, Symonds believes that last year's gulf states market crash was overdone, and on the latter, that despite talk of a property bubble, real estate is still extremely cheap by world standards. A penthouse apartment sells for about $350 per sq. ft. (about $3,750 per sq m). Comparable properties in New York City and London sell for about five times that price...
...Great Wall, is a crowded country where bigger is usually viewed as better, so it's no surprise that retail-property developers seem to be trying to outdo each other with giant construction projects. The mainland already hosts the world's largest shopping center, the 7 million sq. ft. (650,000 sq m) South China Mall in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan. Like Golden Resources, South China Mall suffers from a dearth of stores and shoppers. Yet more megamalls are on the way. By 2010, China expects to be home to seven of the world's 10 largest shopping...
...getting better," he says. It's hard to imagine things getting worse. As a mall security guard dryly observes: "On weekdays we have so few cars, this must be the best parking lot in Beijing." Unfortunately for the builders, it's a parking lot attached to 6 million sq. ft. of unloved retail space...
...North Pole isn't the only prize in the eyes of the resurgent Russian empire - Moscow is also looking to restore control over a 47,000 sq. km (18,000 sq. mile) piece of the Bering Sea separating Alaska from Russian Chukotka. The territory was ceded to the U.S. in 1990 under the U.S.-Soviet Maritime Boundary Agreement signed by Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. While the deal may have helped ease Cold War tensions, anti-reform Soviet hard-liners always opposed giving up a piece of territory rich in sea life and hydrocarbon...