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...exquisite inlaid marble and that sewage water is seeping into the foundations; the organization has also asked for a report to address claims that the 350-year-old tomb is tilting by 19 cm, leading to fears that it might eventually collapse. Meanwhile, India's foremost Hindu site, the southern city of Hampi, has appeared on UNESCO's endangered list for five years over plans to build a road nearby, and the city's magnificent central concourse has been irreparably damaged by shops, restaurants and hotels that have covered historic fa?ades with plaster, paint and neon. In western India...
...Chengyu, chief executive officer of CNOOC, is the driving force behind its controversial takeover bid for U.S. oil giant Unocal. A fluent English speaker with a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California (he's currently a few courses shy of an M.B.A.), Fu met with TIME recently in Beijing to explain why a merger should make sense to Unocal, Washington and his own shareholders...
COLLAPSED. APOSTLE NO. 4, a 45-m-tall rock formation that, along with eight adjacent outcrops, was part of the 12 Apostles, one of Australia's most famous natural landmarks; after thousands of years of erosion; off the southern coast of Victoria. In reality, there were never more than nine limestone stacks; they were given their current title in 1922 in hopes of drawing more tourists than they had attracted under their previous name, the Sow and Piglets. According to one witness, the rock "shuddered, then fractured and collapsed straight down on itself" before falling into the Indian Ocean...
Springs was started in 1887 by Bowles' great-great-grandfather Samuel Elliott White and great-grandfather Leroy Springs. Her father William Close took the company public in 1966. But by the time Bowles became CEO in 1998, the Southern textile industry was under siege from imports. A financial analyst by training (and political wife by fate--she's married to Erskine Bowles, once chief of staff under President Bill Clinton), Bowles understood that to remain competitive, Springs had to restructure, cut domestic production and run a more efficient operation. First she took the company private again, in September...
...authors Bijan Omrani and Matthew Leeming. The book offers a balance of practical advice, intriguing cultural observations and literary excerpts (quoting everyone from Marco Polo to Bruce Chatwin), and showcases the authors' encyclopedic knowledge without ever becoming stuffy. The only dissonant note relates to security issues. Large parts of southern Afghanistan are still too dangerous for foreigners, where fighting continues between U.S. forces and remnants of the Taliban, and bomb attacks have taken place in Kabul. At times, the authors' enthusiasm for their subject appears to make them downplay these issues, as when they assert somewhat too dismissively: "Kabul...