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** The Versace fashion house is to create the first refrigerated beach so that hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. The beach will be next to the Palazzo Versace hotel being built in Dubai, where summer temperatures average 40C and can reach 50C. The beach will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface. (Snip) The scheme has infuriated environmentalists. The Times (UK) **