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CYRENE FEATURED IN
NEW YORK TIMES
A Green Resort Is Planned
to Preserve Ruins and
Coastal Waters
In this remote eastern region of Libya, where the bleak hills resemble a lunar landscape, the Green Mountain Sustainable Development Area is the latest in a spate of recently announced projects that form a sort of environmental coming-out party for this former pariah country.
Fleets of white Mercedes vans ferried guests along newly paved roads for a lamb dinner among the ruins and a signing ceremony presided over by Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, eldest son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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PINGYAO FEATURED IN
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST 
Living History - The Walled City of Pingyao Offers a Rare Glimpse into China's Past
It is daybreak in Pingyao. Along narrow dirt lanes and behind steep courtyard walls, one of the last vestiges of Old China awakens. A watermelon vendor bikes down Ming Dynasty streets, his rotund wares balanced precariously on his handlebars. In the gray shadows of the ancient crenellated city wall, rebuilt in 1370 and one of the few intact city walls left in China, an intrepid band of ladies is engaged in Chinese hip-hop aerobics, their frenetic whirl barely noticed by fellow early risers doing tai chi...
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