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Imagine a city being built from scratch. Imagine a marshy coastal strip filled with paddy fields and fishing villages transformed into a megalopolis within a few short years. Shenzhen is just that place, a 126-sq.-mi. serpentine swath opposite Hong Kong that still has the raw look of a city halfway between blueprint and reality. Apartment high-rises border unpaved roads, while open trenches pose a hazard to the unwary. In the shadow of the International Trade Center, at 54 stories China's tallest building, are mounds of dirt coughed up by the excavation. Construction cranes scratch...
...million, 140-acre homestead in Princeton, N.J., called Jasna Polana after Leo Tolstoy's Russian estate, though what Tolstoy would have thought of its air-conditioned doghouse is hard to say. Even before the bequest that may make her one of the world's wealthiest women, she cut a swath through auction houses, and recently spent a staggering $4.8 million for a drawing by Raphael and $1.5 million for a Louis XVI cabinet...
...sneaking up on anybody anymore," says Hyundai Motor America CEO Robert Cosmai. Sales have more than quadrupled since 1998 as the company's quality improved, but Cosmai wants the Hyundai name to be top of mind when Americans talk new cars. So the company is aiming for a greater swath of the market with seven new or redesigned vehicles, including the Accent ($9,999) and the refreshed 2006 Sonata (some made in Alabama), the firm's standard-bearer sedan. Hyundai is also going upmarket with the 265-h.p. Azera, which will target the Maxima/Avalon crowd in November...
Until recently, Beijing saw those affected by dams as little more than obstacles to a bigger goal--powering the world's most eye-popping economy. Beijing's planners want hydropower to help ease their reliance on imported oil. Especially enticing is a swath of Yunnan province where three of Asia's great rivers--the Salween, Mekong and Yangtze--descend through valleys that account for nearly a quarter of China's hydropower potential. Developers have proposed 27 dams on those three rivers...
While fraternities are not completely open, in practice they seem to cater to a far broader swath of the undergraduate community at schools like Cornell and Dartmouth than final clubs do at Harvard...