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European Heroes In your wonderful selection of people who deserve to be called European Heroes, you featured Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen [Oct. 10]. That is too much praise for a man who is mainly known for his prevarication and tardy approach to very real problems that affect this city. It is important to realize that in Holland, mayors are appointed by the crown. The good citizens of Amsterdam are thus not allowed to vote for their first citizen, and they instead got a refugee from the political establishment who needed a place to hide. After filmmaker Theo van Gogh...
Evers and his Amsterdam-based staff share their discoveries via trendwatching.com, a free online digest of the freshest, most interesting trends that's tracked by in-the-know marketers, retailers, designers and consumers worldwide. Evers' Springspotters network, one of several global trend-tracking alliances, has more than doubled in size since last year, when there were just 2,500 volunteers. Today the spotters, ages 17 to 70, send information from more than 70 countries. They do it partly for the small rewards, like key-ring cameras, that they can earn but mostly for the street cred that comes with...
...clutching a Kalashnikov rifle, "I saw some good water filters at Al Mokhtar ... buy them there next time." In a film packed with wrenching moments, this one remains one of the most shocking, even for the filmmaker who crafted it. Abu-Assad, 43, an Arab-Israeli who emigrated to Amsterdam in the early 1980s to be an airplane engineer, co-scripted and directed the film, based on years of research into the subject. He interviewed the relatives of dead Palestinian bombers and pored over the interrogation transcripts of would-be attackers in jail...
...rival company. So what's the company IT boss to do? Squeezing superglue into USB ports (as some have done) is no long-term fix. The devices should be "prohibited where confidential information could leak out," says David Friedlander, senior analyst at tech consultants Forrester Research EMEA in Amsterdam. Some security-minded organizations have done just that. Britain's Ministry of Defence has outlawed the gadgets on certain sites. But software makers can help out, too. Centennial has seen interest in specialized products from government, military and financial services firms spike in recent months. Besides, "we've lived with...
...over Western Sahara, released from Algeria last week 17 Average number of years the POWs were held, the longest known internment of soldiers in modern history 15 million Number of Popsicle sticks used to construct the Mjollnir, a 15-m replica of a Viking vessel that will launch from Amsterdam next year in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean 67% Percentage of American workers who intend to keep working past retirement age, according to a Rutgers University survey 4,628 Number of pending bills shelved by the Philippine Congress while it deals with the political and financial scandals embroiling...