Portfolio | January 2010

Portfolio

Issue 61 â– January 2011

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VENICE PALACES

Living in Luxury

SOLAR POWER

Not That Green?

A NEW WORLD

Investing in Maps

Zaha Hadid Building Her Dreams

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A 360° Vision

COVER PHOTO: LUKE HAYES

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Features 28 Designing a Hit Toy

48 Lost Worlds

What do children want? That’s a multi-million dollar question

Collecting old maps offers a unique combination of

every festive season. The latest fad that hit the top were

decorative art, geographic science, lost history and a sense

squishy toys named Squinkies that are the brainchild of a

of place. It also puts the world into perspective.

small toy maker.

32 Online Education

52 Renewable Power Instead of paying for electricity, the small Italian town of

In the traditional form online courses were aimed at

Tocco Da Casuria now makes money from generating

older students with jobs or those who couldn’t make it

renewable energy through wind turbines.

to campus for other reasons, such as distance. But now online education is being propelled by large classes and funding cuts.

36 A Fine Balance There’s no doubt that renewable energy is preferable to

56 Larger Than Life From lounge singer to Chilean mining magnate, Leonardo Farkas Klein leads a colourful and public life. That may put him at odds with some local businesspeople, but the less privileged love Farkas for his philanthropy.

fossil fuels, but there’s still an environmental bill to be paid. This has become very clear in California where solar installations are being built in the fragile desert ecosystem.

40 Hacking with Benefits Normally companies do not like people playing with their proprietary software. But in some cases it is tolerated or actually encouraged as hackers take the technology forward.

44 Japan’s Electric Headache Things can change rapidly as the Industrial Revolution proved. Japan, with its huge fossil-fuel-based auto industry, is worried that electric cars could spell the end for thousands of its companies.

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Essentials 61 The Last Blacksmith Nguyen Phuong Hung is Hanoi’s last blacksmith, but he is also symbolic of the end of the city’s Ancient Quarter that was once controlled by 36 guilds.

66 It’s a Doge’s Life To get the real feel of Venice you need to spend at least a night there. And when you spend that night in a palazzo, you will feel like royalty.

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70 Hammering Convention Markus Luepertz is one of Germany’s most prominent artists. He is also one of its most ‘misunderstood’ and provokes ire, appreciation and plenty of discussion.

74 The Field Of Stars The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, otherwise known

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as the field of stars, is an 800 kilometre, one-thousand-yearold trek through north western Spain.

78 Reaching for the Stars This February the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, designed to sift the high-energy particles flying through space known as cosmic rays, will be launched into space. It will either be a huge success or a monumental failure.

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82 Sultans of Zing Regarded as one of the three classic cuisines alongside French and Chinese, Turkish cooking is often misunderstood. But this is a perception that Istanbul’s

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leading chefs are eager to change.

World business in a nutshell.

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86 A New Benchmark The 2011 Grand Cherokee Limited leaves all its previous

Spotting and analysing business trends.

20 Column: David Carr Old Ideas, New Approach.

incarnations in the dust thanks to a complete redesign.

88 Other Business Portfolio takes a light-hearted look at the latest business news.

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was the price paid for the handwritten lyrics for ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’

by Bob Dylan at a recent auction at Sotheby’s in New York. More than doubling Sotheby’s pre-estimate sale, the artifact from the musical legend was bought by hedge-fund manager Adam Sender, who outbid five other contenders.

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mph was the record speed recently clocked by a Chinese passenger train after it successfully completed a test run on the new high-speed link between Beijing and Shanghai. It is the fastest speed recorded by an unmodified conventional commercial train. The £21 billion project will cut the journey time between Beijing and Shanghai from the current 10 hours to less than five.

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Smaller engines are expected to consume 35 per cent less fuel, whilst providing the same level of performance. more billionaires have signed up for the Giving Pledge set up by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and investor Warren Buffett that challenges America’s wealthiest to give away most of their wealth. So far 57 have joined the GatesBuffet effort.

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Resumés Rewritten

TEXT: HEBA HASHEM

Jay Leno Star of NBC’s The Tonight Show, Jay

segments such as ‘Jaywalking’. The show

Leno is a leading figure in the genre of

made history last year by being the first

half of which are cars and the rest

light-hearted one-on-one talk shows.

late-night programme to host an acting

motorcycles, Leno carefully states on his

His nightly monologues on the late-night

president when Leno welcomed President

website JayLenosGarage.com that the

shows are accompanied by famous

Barack Obama.

garage is not a museum; neither does he

guests and snappily titled comedy

Prior to hosting the Emmy Awardwinning The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, he perfected his comedy in clubs all over the United States, often

With a 200-plus vehicle collection,

purchase them as museum pieces.

That is because he enjoys driving each and every one of the vehicles, which include rare cars such as a

exceeding 300 dates per year.

Bugatti Atlantic, a Monteverde, and

Although he permanently took

a turbine motorcycle.

charge of the show in 1992, Leno continues to tour in the comedy circle and averages more than 150 gigs a year.

Leno’s biggest infatuation is with vintage cars; he owns a 1955 Buick, a 1956 Chrysler Imperial, a Stanley Steamer, a 1966 Dodge Coronet

But when he’s not cracking jokes or hosting celebrities, Leno can be found with his cars. In fact, they are more like toys for the comedian, who

Hemi and a 1932 Packard Twin Six 12-cylinder Coupe. His favourite is said to be the McLaren F1, which was the fastest car on the planet in 1998.

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his private 5,000

around the freeways of Los Angeles

square-metre garage.

and shows them off at exhibitions and on various television programmes.

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A professional, Swiss-born mechanicracer heads the team.

The image of the celebrity Leno in mechanic’s overalls is more realistic than comical. One wonders if his garage staff appreciate his witty remarks and sarcastic comments as well as the millions of viewers that watch his show. ■

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BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF

Josh McFarland (left) started TellApart last year with Mark Ayzenshtat. They are both former Google employees who decided to embrace their entrepreneurial spirit.

Retaining Nimble Minds

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Google has grown from a tiny startup into a Valley mammoth, but it may also be losing its momentum, reports Clair Cain Miller.

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The former Vice President of Pfizer and the company’s head of

Sinopec to Acquire Occidental’s Argentina Unit

global biopharmaceutical operations has hit the ground running

China Petrochemical Corporation, Asia’s biggest refiner, has

to meet the immediate challenges arising from the concern

agreed to acquire Occidental Petroleum’s (Oxy) Argentine oil and

around Pfizer’s patent on its blockbuster cholesterol drug Lipitor

gas unit for $2.45 billion. This will be the Beijing-based company’s

that expires next year. The world’s top selling drug earned the

first investment in Argentina’s oil and gas industry. The deal, which

company $11.5 billion in sales last year, accounting for 23 per

is subject to government approval, brought Chinese bids for

cent of Pfizer’s $50 billion annual sales. Read’s appointment at

overseas energy assets to a staggering $38.8 billion last year.

this crucial juncture reflects the board’s confidence in him.

The high expectations don’t seem farfetched given that

“Chinese companies are interested in acquiring energy assets that China needs in developing countries like Argentina because

Read has been a top scorer in leading worldwide sales and

they are seen as having less competition from the big established

marketing for the company’s pharmaceutical businesses,

oil majors,” said Shi Yan, an analyst at UOB-Kay Hian in Shanghai.

which accounted for nearly 85 per cent of Pfizer’s revenue.

The Occidental unit, Occidental Argentina Exploration &

The science graduate from London has begun strategising his

Production, holds an interest in 23 production and exploration

operations to secure global emerging markets to expand the

concessions in Santa Cruz, Mendoza and Chubut provinces, of

company’s customer base and thus compensate for the sales

which 19 are operating. The Chinese company would gain access

losses Lipitor is expected to suffer. This is just one of Read’s

to fields that produced more than 51,000 barrels of oil a day

focused moves. With a track record of nearly three decades

last year, or about one per cent of China’s daily crude imports.

demonstrating strength, foresight and competitive edge, there’s

Argentina’s proven oil reserves were 2.5 billion barrels as of the

much to be expected.

end of 2009.

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Zaha Hadid believes there’s a lot more to architecture than 90° angles. Her work is flowing, challenging and goes beyond what any architect has dared to do, reports Scott Adams.

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The Guangzhou Opera House, which was inaugurated last year, illustrates Hadid’s vision of architecture that complements nature and blends into the urban environment.

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The interior of the Guangzhou Opera House features extreme angles, another Hadid hallmark.

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“I wanted initially in my career to make buildings which sparkled like isolated jewels but now, as I get older, I want them to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together within contemporary cities and the lives of the people that live there.”

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Although Hadid is now a sought after architect, many of her designs languished on the drawing board. The Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art was her big breakthrough in 2003.

MAXXI, the acronym of the Museum of the Arts of the Twenty First Century, opened in Rome late last year. It is designed to form several layers.

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“With 360 degrees to choose from, why use just one. Nature is not uniform or grid pattered and its organic randomness is beautiful and inspirational.”

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The Hadid-designed London Aquatics Centre will be the first venue visitors see upon entering the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Its total building costs are estimated at £242 million.

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Blip Toys, a tiny company, introduced Squinkies at 16 for $10 and suddenly found it had a huge hit on its hands.

Designing a Hit Toy What do children want? That’s a multi-million dollar question every festive season. The latest fad that rang the tills are squishy toys named Squinkies, the brainchild of a small toy maker, reports Stephanie Clifford.

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Online Education Traditionally online courses were aimed at older students with jobs or those who couldn’t make it to campus for other reasons, such as distance. But now online education is being pushed by large classes and funding cuts, reports Trip Gabriel.

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In the United States online education is exploding as 4.6 million students took a collegelevel online course last year. Of these, three million were simultaneously enrolled in faceto-face courses.

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A FINE BALANCE There’s no doubt that renewable energy is preferable to fossil fuels, but there’s still an environmental bill to be paid. That’s become very clear in California where solar installations are being built in a fragile desert ecosystem, reports Todd Woody.

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A reminder to check under vehicles for desert tortoises on a truck’s mirror on the site of the BrightSource Ivanpah solar power plant.

With solar power plants approved that would cover 109 square kilometres of the California desert, environmentalists fear the impact of industrialisation on the desert.

A desert tortoise warms itself in the sun. BrightSource has a federal permit to relocate a maximum of 38 tortoises.

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By 2014, nearly 16 square kilometres of government-owned desert will be covered with 347,000 mirrors the size of billboards.

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Renewable Energy. Responsible solutions With problems come opportunities.

With opportunities come choices: Choice of purpose.

We at Apex Power Concepts choose our purpose of responsibility.

Solar energy for sustainable development Solar energy for remote energy Solar energy for water heating Solar energy for area cooling

Responsibility to deliver flawless renewable energy solutions is our purpose.

Mirrors will focus solar energy on 140-mete towers topped with water-filled boilers to create steam and drive turbines.

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Solar energy systems SHARP, worlds leading manufacturer of solar cells, and Apex Power Concepts, regions premier system integrator, have teamed up together to bring to you range of solar systems that help combat ‘Global Energy Crises’ while mitigating ‘Global Warming’ effects. Working coherently and responsibly, we offer renewable energy solutions that not only promise but also deliver- flawlessly.

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Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, used a hacked Xbox Kinect to create a 3D interface.

The Kinect is steadily finding new applications thanks to hackers and scientists.

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HACKING WITH BENEFITS Normally companies do not like people playing with their proprietary software. But in some cases it is tolerated or actually encouraged as hackers take the technology forward, reports Jenna Wortham.

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Japanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Electric Headache

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Things can change rapidly as the Industrial Revolution proved. Japan, with its huge fossil-fuel-based auto industry, is worried that electric cars could spell the end for thousands of its companies, reports Hiroko Tabuchi.

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Lost Worlds

Collecting old maps offers a unique combination of decorative art, geographic science, lost history and a sense of place. It also puts the world in perspective, discovers Andy Round.

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Left and right: Some maps are more valuable than others thanks to their history. This map of the Congo was originally blank in the centre as no cartographer had been there. It was filled in by the famous explorer Henry Morton Stanley. The map sold for £77,675 at a Christie’s auction this year.

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“We are seeing greater interest in maps than ever before. They are accessible forms of art. Anyone can look at a map and understand what the mapmaker was trying to say. It’s not like abstract art.”

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Small towns like Tocco da Casuria are leading the Italian investment in renewable energy.

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RENEWABLE POWER Instead of paying for electricity, the small Italian town of Tocco Da Casuria now makes money from generating renewable energy through wind turbines, reports Elisabeth Rosenthal.

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Production of green electricity earned Tocco €170,000 last year, money which is very welcome in this region of Italy.

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Larger Than Life

Š 2010 NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

From lounge singer to Chilean mining magnate, Leonardo Farkas Klein leads a colourful and public life.

That may put him at odds with some local business people, but the less privileged love Farkas for his philanthropy, reports Alexei Barrionuevo.

Leonardo Farkas Klein, a mining executive, is a media darling in Chile thanks to his philanthropy.

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Farkas, thanks to his years on the entertainment circuit, knows how to make a splash.

Here he is pictured on October 19, 2010, welcoming the Chilean miners home. Farkas made international headlines when he donated $10,000 to each of the miners’ families long before their rescue.

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Farkas is considering selling the majority of his mining assets so he can concentrate on philanthropy.

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A HOT TRADITION Nguyen Phuong Hung is Hanoi’s last blacksmith, but he is also symbolic of the end of the city’s Ancient Quarter that was once controlled by 36 guilds, reports Seth Mydans.

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Nguyen Phuong Hung, a third generation blacksmith, works at his tiny corner shop in the Ancient Quarter of Hanoi.

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Antiques, plus items that are made to look like antiques, are for sale on the pavement of Hanoi’s Ancient Quarter. The area, which was once controlled by guilds, is now focusing on tourists.

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Wooden stamps were once mainly made for local businesses, but today they are sold as handicrafts to tourists.

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“Blacksmith Street got its name at the beginning of the 19th century, Phuc said, when French colonial administrators sent out a call for metal workers to help build the Long Bien bridge over the Red River.”

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A local travel agency, with a real Soviet-made Minsk motorcycle hanging over its facade, specialises in tours of northern Vietnam.

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Nguyen Phuong Hung is the last blacksmith on Blacksmith Street. He's doing good business as the Ancient Quarter is renovated or rebuilt.

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Hung’s blacksmith shop is also a social gathering place. There’s a table with tea and customers can have a chat while he works.

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“It is not a glamorous look, and Hung said his wife told him she never would have married him if she had known he would become a blacksmith.”

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It’s a Doge’s Life To get the real feel of Venice you need to spend at least a night there. And when you spend that night in a palazzo, you will feel like royalty, reports Scott Adams.

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Essentials Accommodation “The highlight of any stay there is to sleep in the Suite del Doge. Once you have climbed the ‘Golden Stairs’ to the first floor you are greeted with a view of the magnificent picture gallery.”

The Suite del Doge in the Palazzo Danieli is a shrine to Baroque opulence.

The Palazzo Gritti is as luxurious as its counterparts, but the decor is more subtle with a very refined Venetian tone.

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The Palazzo Danieli’s foyer was designed to impress visiting dignitaries 600 years ago. Today, it has lost none of its impact.

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When it comes to views of the Grand Canal the Palazzo Gritti is hard to beat.

The Europa & Regina may have the best location in Venice. The massive wrap around terraces offer stunning views.

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Hammering Convention Markus Luepertz is one of Germany’s most prominent artists.

He is also one of its most ‘misunderstood’ and provokes ire, appreciation and plenty of discussion, reports Michael Slackman.

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Luepertz with his latest creation, Hercules, which has been ordered by the former mining town of Gelsenkirchen.

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The Fallen Warrior was created by Luepertz in 1994 and found a permanent home in Berlin a year later. Like all his art it has caused plenty of discussion.

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Silhouetted against the sky: pilgrim sculpture above Pamplona.

THE FIELD OF STARS The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, otherwise known as the Field of Stars, is an 800 kilometre, one-thousand-year-old trek through north western Spain. Santiago is the destination: an ancient cathedral city, but as Howard Scott discovers, sometimes the journey itself is a more meaningful experience than the arrival.

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Meandering through ancient landscapes, the route reveals a variety of worlds.

PHOTOS: ANNE MARIE KRAHN

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Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Pyrénées

Camino de Santiago de Compostela Pamplona

Leon Logroño

ILLUSTRATION BY ROUI FRANCISCO

Burgos

SPAIN PORTUGAL

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Sam Ting with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer at CERN in Geneva. The device will be launched on the space shuttle Endeavour in February.

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This February the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, designed to sift the highenergy particles flying through space known as cosmic rays, will be launched into space. It will either be a huge success or a monumental failure, reports Dennis Overbye.

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Ting is a 74-year-old Nobel laureate who discovered a new particle in 1974. Critics contend that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is one experiment that should never have been approved.

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on its way to the Kennedy Space Centre. The device will be housed on the International Space Station, boosting its scientific credibility.

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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is designed to sift through cosmic rays. It should be able to identify dark matter that may determine the architecture of the universe.

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SULTANS OF ZING Regarded as one of the three classic cuisines alongside French and Chinese, Turkish cooking is often misunderstood. But this is a perception that Istanbul’s leading chefs are eager to change, reports Mike MacEacheran.

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Changa restaurant, close to Taksim Square, offers Turkish cuisine blended with modern dishes.

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TOP TABLES ■ TUGRA Ciragan Palace Kempinski Istanbul Ciragan Caddesi 32, Besiktas Tel +90 (212) 326 4646 kempinski.com/en/istanbul ■ SEASONS Four Seasons at Istanbul Sultanahmet Tevkifhane Sokak 1, Sultanahmet-Eminönü, Tel: +90 (212) 402 3000 fourseasons.com/istanbul ■ ÇINTEMANI Ritz Carlton Istanbul Suzer Plaza, Elmadag, Askerocagi Caddesi 15, Sisli Tel: +90 (212) 334 4444 ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Istanbul/ ■ CHANGA Cihangir Mh. Sıraselviler Caddesi 47, Taksim Tel: +90 (212) 251 7064 changa-istanbul.com/v2/changataksimmain.asp

Above: Tugra is an upmarket restaurant with a stunning view of the Bosphorus and a menu brimming with Ottoman dishes.

Right: Fresh mackerel sandwiches, made on restaurant boats, are the local form of fast food.

Below: Tugra offers a huge selection of mezze dishes.

January 2011

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Chef Ali Ronay, of the Çintemani restaurant, believes that Istanbul may have the world’s most diverse cuisine.

Istanbul’s Galata area is overflowing with trendy restaurants that are packed in the evening.

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“Recently published Turkish cookery books, and especially the ones about the Ottoman’s eating culture, act as a bridge between the palace and the man on the street.”

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Chef Sava Aydemir believes that Turkish cuisine is going through a renaissance by embracing local dishes but taking them in a new direction.

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The 2011 Grand Cherokee Limited leaves all its previous incarnations in the dust thanks to a complete redesign, reports Guido Duken.

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The new Grand Cherokee has a more aerodynamic shape with a drag coefficient of 0.37. Paired with the 3.6-litre Pentastar engine the Cherokee uses 10 per cent less fuel than its predecessor.

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The cabin interior is well finished in fine leather and wood accents plus a long list of features that all come as standard.

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Other Business

MONEY JIGSAW Sometimes Lady Luck will bestow her blessing on someone following a particular unlucky event. Such was the case of a Taiwanese man, named Lin, who dropped a bag containing T$200,000 ($6,600) in T$1,000 bills into his plastics factory’s GETTY IMAGES

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shredding machine last month.

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Liu Hui-fen put all 200 notes back together

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in seven days, a task, she was quoted as

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requirement for three-quarter completeness,

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and will return the cash to the lucky Mr. Lin.

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A Justice Ministry official said that the unit receives about 250 cases of damaged notes

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attempts to repair as many as possible free

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of charge.

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