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How Qatar is taking on the world

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund owns 95% of the Shard in London, western Europe's tallest building. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA On Thursday evening Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who combines the…
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2127 words)

Portrait of a people in tense times

THE KIBBUTZNIKNAME: Sigal ShoshanyAGE: 45OCCUPATION: college administratorLIVES: Degania Alef kibbutz, GalileeFAMILY: married, four childrenRELIGIOUS IDENTITY: secularSigal Shoshany was born on…
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2795 words)

Life in Greenland's polar desert

I retire at just gone midnight, but am awoken at 2.50am by Qaordloqtoq, the young man who runs the kommune (local council) in the tiny settlement of Savissivik in northwest Greenland. He is…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 30, 2011
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3566 words)
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