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...We enjoyed champagne cruises with dolphins romping beside the boat and my wife snorkelled with turtles....
...Well over 200 companies get Yale’s lowest grade, including the restaurant chains Carl’s Jr and Hard Rock Cafe, and the consumer product companies Asics, Clarins, Giorgio Armani, Lacoste and Philips....
...For an even better view of the city, follow winding, wooded trails up the hill until you reach Eagle Rock Reservation (watch out for the deer)....
...But converting rock that contains about 1 per cent nickel into a form suitable for batteries produces large amounts of waste....
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...And when it transpired that Costa Palmas does have a dedicated onsite conservation initiative for local populations of turtles and several endangered bird species, and community youth programmes, it seemed...
...“I had some turtle, that was a little too much for me.”...
...In smart neighbourhoods, a clutch of new boutique hotels has sprouted up, including the seven-room Seku Bi, named after the parrots in the garden, and La Demeurea, a simple B&B above a café and design shop...
...Last year, Jollibee took a majority stake in Super Foods, a Vietnamese company that operates Pho24 restaurants, the Highlands Coffee chain and Hard Rock Cafes mainly in south-east Asia, Hong Kong and Macau...
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...So profitable were the Seminole casinos in Florida that the tribe reached a $965m deal in 2006 to buy the Hard Rock chain — with holdings in cafés, hotels and casinos — from Rank, the British casino operator...
...Condé Nast International has launched a fashion college in London as well as Vogue cafés in Moscow and Dubai, and a GQ Bar in Berlin....
...Puccini, in a pavilion transformed by Xavier Veilhan and Christian Marclay into supremely elegant recording studios open to everyone, interspersed with fantastical cardboard models of Venetian lutes and rock...
...Its waters are among the clearest in the Med, with unbeatable snorkelling (think caretta turtles and octopus), plus a swim-in grotto whose seas positively fluoresce....
...A very large volcanic rock in Ginostra, the other side of Stromboli (one of the Aeolian islands)....
...Hargreaves hands down The corporate governance code is like water wearing away rock....
...“Café du Cycliste’s jackets have a longer skirt at the back so that it doesn’t ride up when you’re on your bike,” he says. “It’s functional, and it looks good....
...Café....
...The low-key cafe served as an office for Brian Acton and Jan Koum, WhatsApp’s founders, when they were starting out back in 2009....
...Despite being full of start-ups, nobody in the Red Rock Café seemed to recognise the pair who had just sold their app to Facebook for upwards of $16bn....
...From our viewpoint in a café commanding a panorama of the rock citadel, the bazaar and a gorgeous jumble of gardens and semi-ruined mosques, it is all too evident what will be lost to the rising waters....
...You know a place is laid-back when the only locals in a hurry are the turtles....
...Income from events, cafés and other sources reached £18.7m in 2011-12, against £16.4m in government grants. In the previous year grants came to £17m against £13.8m in self-generated income....
...The flora are palm trees; a sign for the Hard Rock Cafe crowds the view....
...The St Oberholz café on Rosenthaler Strasse with its free WiFi and bad coffee has become the unofficial office for many of the most fledgling businesses....
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