Life mimics Ring World

[David Lesher]

<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6831481.ece>

England is deserted, Australia and New Zealand have merged, and the man
who bought Ireland has killed himself.

They were designed to make Dubai the envy of the world: a series of
paradise islands inhabited by celebrities and the super-rich reclaimed
from the azure waters of the Arabian Gulf and shaped like a map of the
Earth. It was called The World.

As millions of tonnes of rock were dumped into the sea for the
foundations, timely leaks suggested that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
were to buy Ethiopia, Sir Richard Branson was tipped to occupy England,
while Rod Stewart would border him in Scotland.

Instead it has become the world's most expensive shipping hazard, guarded
by private security in fast boats and ringed by warning buoys to keep the
curious away. A development that was meant to send Dubai's star into the
firmament of First World cities has been left to the mercy of the waves
and the baking winds.

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