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...Mumbai Diamond Exchange, the somewhat glorified name for three office towers that have seen better days, is much more orderly than anything in Jaipur. On the ninth floor of the Panchratna tower, dealer Sunil Sethi of SK Exports flicks princess-cut and round-cut diamonds with tweezers without looking up. Every day he sees samples from about 35 brokers, who carry the stones in flat plastic boxes tucked into special cotton undervests...
...world's largest indoor ski slopes, featuring fresh powder year round? While flying in on the stylish, state-owned Emirates Airlines, you might notice the artificial islands in the shape of a palm tree or the 56-story Burj al-Arab hotel, as tall as the Eiffel Tower, built like a billowing sail. Westerners are welcome, along with their vices. Europeans in bikinis mingle on the beach with Muslim women in abayas; alcohol flows freely at Dubai's nightclubs and resorts. With events like the Dubai World Cup, a horse race with a record $6 million purse, Dubai draws...
...great view of the 'hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket-like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies?definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...April, the Hearst Corporation's Manhattan employees will begin to move into such a place: their new headquarters will be New York City's most environmentally friendly skyscraper. The architect is Norman Foster, famed for the Millau viaduct in southern France and London's Swiss Re building. Hearst Tower, his debut large U.S. project, is the first office building in New York City to garner a gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design scheme, the recognized U.S. standard for building sustainability. "My mission is to create a structure that is sensitive...
...they were done with lunch. We just asked them to leave as a precaution.” Witnesses said there was a considerable amount of smoke billowing from the building, and that a large number of fire trucks showed up at the scene. Emily Edwards, who works at the Tower Records store across from The Red House, said there seemed to be a “ton” of firemen outside the restaurant. “We just looked outside, and the sky was really bright and smoky,” she said. Alex Slack...