Word: transformers
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...Burj (meaning tower in Arabic) isn't everybody's idea of a place to stay on a holiday budget?the rooms start at $1,361 a night?but the hotel that has become Dubai's striking trademark is merely the centerpiece of an extraordinary effort to transform a small patch of sand surrounded by conflict into a magical vacation paradise that draws tourists from East and West alike. In 2002, 4.8 million visitors checked into Dubai's hotels, double the total for the past six years. Despite the war in Iraq, an upswing in Middle Eastern terrorism and the global...
...Dubai's tourist boom is part of a bold plan to transform the tiny city-state (part of the United Arab Emirates) into a Middle Eastern Singapore?that is, an ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only...
...Emerald Isle, massacring thousands of Irish civilians and confiscating most of their landholdings. In the ensuing centuries, the Irish people were subjected to harshly discriminatory anti-Catholic laws. That was imperialism. In the past few decades, the European Union’s development grants to Ireland have helped transform the nation into a prosperous, open economy with a highly-educated workforce and an impressive growth rate. That is modernization...
...there's no p.r. trick powerful enough to spin away a blunder (a drunken wedding in Las Vegas, say), try hiring photographer David LaChapelle to dress you up and transform you into someone else completely (Jean Harlow, say). To promote BRITNEY SPEARS' upcoming concert tour, which will air on Showtime, the cable channel commissioned a glamorous new portrait of the singer--very demure, very classy. Next hurdle: getting people to believe it's Britney...
...faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies will be displaying their works at the Carpenter Center through next Sunday, Feb. 29. Featured faculty-artists include Tom Butter, Elinor Carucci, Julian Lethbridge, Michaela Pavlatova and Elaine Reichek. The sculpture of Tom Butter, a Visiting Lecturer in the department, transform a mix of materials to bring form to abstract ideas, as his course VES 130r, “Idea into Form,” promises to teach. The work of Michaela Pavlatova, the Prague-born animator, is also particularly noteworthy. Free. Monday through Saturday...