In cities with gleaming skyscrapers and bustling industries, the schools are too frequently ramshackle, run - down, substandard accommodations unworthy of those who seek to learn within their walls. (edweek.org)
Drive through the vast desert and rocky canyons of the Outback to lush, wild rainforests, and the sandy beaches and gleaming skyscrapers of Australia's Gold Coast. (playground-games.com)
Today, in Singapore's financial district, big names in the private - money world, like Credit Suisse, Julius Baer and UBS, keep offices in gleaming skyscrapers among the squat facades of century - old colonial British buildings. (nytimes.com)