Word: aachener
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...drizzly Saturday in downtown Aachen, a city in western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. With Germany teetering on the edge of recession, most stores in the neighborhood are half-empty. But on a street called Löhergraben, one store is packed: Aldi. With brown speckled floor tiles, garish neon lights and a limited assortment of products in half-opened cardboard boxes, it's the least-inviting place around. But it's also the cheapest, and so the line to Aldi's two cash registers stretches the entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their...
This is the season of legacy for Bill Clinton, and that means photo opportunities. The president arrived in Portugal Tuesday to kick off a seemingly haphazard European farewell tour - Lisbon, Aachen, Berlin, Moscow, Kiev - and immediately began to hit the loud notes of seven years of seemingly haphazard foreign policy. Judging by the agenda, they must be: global trade, "third way" governance, humanitarian intervention in Africa, global trade again (how many presidents take their secretaries of State and Commerce on the same trip?) and one voodoo-defense leftover from the Reagan years, the missile defense system. And while Clinton talks...
...Palm VII's wireless Internet connection and a free program called Britannica Traveler (downloadable at palm.net) Surfers already have access to the encyclopedia at Britannica.com Now, with the pocket-size Palm VII, they'll be able to browse all 32 of Britannica's volumes wherever they go, from Aachen to Zwickau...