The firm's Alan Aldrige said it was the only blueprint in private hands and the only one which included the ship's plumbing.

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One property now in the Chongqing government's hands is a 20-hectare (50-acre) villa and golf-course development, with a near-finished Hilton hotel.

ECONOMIST: Shattering the fa?ade

Or, as his Haitian patients aptly put it, medicine without food is like washing one's hands and drying them in the dirt.

ECONOMIST: Medicine and the poor