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...posher digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting out the market?just as foreign golf-course firms did a few years earlier. This week, Shanghai will host the first-ever Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work on up to five new resorts in China in the next six months. Meanwhile, Italian firm Tecnica, the world's largest ski-boot manufacturer, arrived in China last fall; the company has already sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to the People | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...posher digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting out the market-just as foreign golf-course firms did a few years earlier. This week, Shanghai will host the first-ever Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work on up to five new resorts in China in the next six months. Meanwhile, Italian firm Tecnica, the world's largest ski-boot manufacturer, arrived in China last fall; the company has already sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to the People | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...reality of living in a globally connected business world. Your IBM laptop is now manufactured by a Chinese company that may outsource customer support to an Indian firm and the logistics to FedEx. Dubai companies aren't just buying overseas assets like hotels in New York and wax museums in London; they're providing jobs and business for U.S. companies. Boeing, for one, can only hope it doesn't receive a frosty reception the next time it wants to sell airplanes to Dubai's booming airline, Emirates. Rival Airbus would be more than happy to take advantage of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dubai Deal You Don't Know About | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

Sheik Mo, known for his love of thoroughbred horses, has been on a shopping spree. In recent months his investment vehicles have acquired the Tussauds Group wax museums and a 2% stake in DaimlerChrysler. U.S. purchases include the landmark Essex House hotel and Helmsley Building in New York, and 69 apartment-rental properties in southern U.S. states. And he's clearly not done. Says Alabbar: "For any businessman, you need to operate in the American economy and understand it. That's where a lot of the stuff in the world starts. That's why I am in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Dubai Inc. | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...comprising its entire run, this production promises to be uniquely relevant. It is the only official event commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women to HDS, implicitly reminding viewers that, not so long ago, women weren’t even allowed to attend the institution, let alone wax poetic about their sexuality in its—literally—hallowed halls. For those who still aren’t convinced that such things have a place at HDS, “Monologues” participants have prepared a concise retort, conveniently printed on a T-shirt that they...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Vagina Monologues | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

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