Meanwhile Jenny jet sets with the property players.

BBC: The Truth about Property

To ensure a fair valuation, they appointed two sets of consultants to value each property and set deadlines for the process to be completed.

FORBES: Divide And Conquer

"Wired for Culture, " a remarkable new book by Mark Pagel, an American evolutionary biologist based in England, sets out to explain this peculiar human property of fragmenting into mutually uncomprehending cultural groups.

WSJ: Matt Ridley on the Ideas in Mark Pagel's Wired for Culture | Mind & Matter

"It is not just the clawing greed of painstaking claims for such minor items as tampons, barbecue sets and bathrobes, but also the egregious way some have transferred allowances from one second property to another - enabling them to refurbish homes at public expense, then sell them for profit, " Lord Carey added.

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Haier in white goods, Legend in computers and Konka in television sets are all examples of Chinese firms with strategies based on their own brands or other intellectual property.

ECONOMIST: Intellectual property in China