TXU, Texas's main power-generator, led the company to abandon eight out of 11 planned coal-fired power stations because the private equity firm concerned, Texas Pacific, wanted to square the environmental movement.

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French Polynesia is made up of some 200 islands -- the Society, Tuamotu, Gambier, Austral and Marquesas groups -- spread over 4.1 million square kilometres of Pacific Ocean: an area roughly eight times the size of France.

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Back in China, Pacific Andes is constructing a 3.5-million- square-foot processing complex in Hongdao, near Qingdao.

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At first glance, Tuvalu is an island paradise, 26 square kilometers of white sand and lush foliage in the Pacific Ocean, north of Fiji.

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San Francisco is just seven square miles at the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific and San Francisco Bay, which meet at the Golden Gate.

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In the lndo-Pacific Ocean, for example, there are as many as 1000 species per square metre.

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In another rather unconventional setting, Villa Rockledge, a 5, 500 square foot mansion constructed in 1918 sits perched on a rocky ledge overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

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On April 2nd Pershing Square added a seventh candidate to the alternative slate of directors it has nominated to the board of Canadian Pacific Railway.

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