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...sell for at least 3220,000 - are in the pipeline, as are 12 to 16 more developments. Even more ambitious are plans to apply the technology to roads. A 70-m prototype, to be tested in June, is touted as safe and stable. Still, watch those puddles. - By Abi Daruvalla/Amsterdam Masters of Disguise BRISTOL Walking down the high street, yakking on their beloved mobile phones, few Brits know - or care - where their phone signal is coming from. It could be transmitted from a chimney stack, drainpipe, the cross on the church steeple - or wherever else The Undetectables have been...
...Reported by Helena Bachmann/Geneva, Theunis Bates and Michael Brunton/London, Penny Campbell/Durham, Anthee Carassava/Athens, Abi Daruvalla/Amsterdam, Peter Gumbel and Grant Rosenberg/Paris, Joe Kirwin/Brussels, Angela Leuker/Vienna, Mimi Murphy/Rome, Ulla Plon/Copenhagen, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/Berlin and Genevieve Wilkinson/Singapore
...Living in the Netherlands has made it possible for me to realize that men and women are equal," Hirsi Ali says, "and given me the opportunity to take advantage of higher education. But it also made me ask why more Muslim women here are not doing the same." - By ABI DARUVALLA/The Hague THE CONVERT Anne Sofie Roald, 48, Sweden Most angry young students join marches or sign petitions. Anne Sofie Roald took the veil. When she discovered Islam at the University of Oslo in the early '80s, the faith seemed to offer all that she sought - fellowship, moral grounding, even...
...With reporting by Abi Daruvalla/Amsterdam
...banks, which have found little support among Silvio Berlusconi's center-right opposition, aren't much happier than the consumer groups. Maurizio Sella, chairman of abi, the Italian bankers' association, calls the amended law "unacceptable" because it interferes with the free market. But he is grateful that the decree at least recognizes that a mortgage that is in conformance with the law when it is made ought to remain legal. "If this point isn't clearly upheld, Italian banks may well stop offering fixed-rate mortgages," he predicts...