This modern urban zone is comprised of glass and steel skyscrapers, a giant shopping mall, convention centre and office parks that house Fortune 500 corporate offices and global hotel chains.

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The winding yew hedges at Great Dixter had been planted by his father, who had bought the house with his printing fortune.

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When boxes of flammable debris placed throughout the house were discovered, as well as evidence that Marin, a Yale graduate, had lost the small fortune he had earned and could no longer afford house payments, he was charged with arson.

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Then one night someone slipped into Celebrating Fortune village and tried to set the family house on fire.

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In recent years, Center interns have been hired to work on Capitol Hill, the White House, the Foreign Service, Fortune 500 companies, and various intelligence agencies.

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They started an investigation, and found out that no one named "Larry" had ever lived in Dr. Porter's house, but a slave named "Fortune" did.

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Like Wright, Aalto was building a summer home for wealthy clients timber-fortune heirs Harry and Maire Gullichsen, who commissioned a house in Noormarkku, near the west coast of Finland.

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People learn through anecdote and example the friend who sold his house for a million, the colleague who made a fortune buying dotcom stocks.

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Mr. Paulson has made a very successful career, an immense personal fortune and an astounding financial empire at the New York-based investment house, Goldman Sachs.

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House edge: 5.6%--worse than blackjack but better than the wheel of fortune.

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