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...golf cart?sized car with seats and a dashboard that accelerates, turns and stops, but it has no steering wheel - and no driver. The CyberCar uses the latest in computer technology to dispense with human navigation. Unlike the automated cars currently ferrying passengers through airports and industrial areas in Amsterdam and Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take...
...Yukos says a forced sale of Yugansk, which reportedly may be priced way below market value, would violate Russian statutes that stipulate that noncore assets be sold first in the event of tax claims. "This has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with expropriation," argues Robert Amsterdam, a Toronto-based lawyer for Khodorkovsky...
...iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder With its majestic Rijksmuseum and gorgeous Van Gogh depository, Amsterdam is a must on any culture vulture's tour of Europe. But your brush with art needn't end at the museum exits. These days, you can stay in hotels that are part accommodation, part art space. Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square...
...Born in west Amsterdam, Mohammed B. appears to have been a typical second-generation child of Moroccan parents. He was by all accounts a good student, and his family attended a moderate mosque. He may have moved toward fundamentalist Islam after the death of his mother two years ago. Though he initially sought to fit into Dutch culture, he may have faced the same dilemma as other young Dutch Muslims, caught between their parents' old Islamic ways and an unaccepting modern Dutch society. "They're living between two different worlds," says Van Houcke. "They can feel in 1,001 ways...
...these developments mean tolerance is backfiring on the Dutch, they're not about to accept the alternative. Van Gogh's murder was such an affront to free speech that Cohen, the Amsterdam mayor who was once the butt of his anti-Semitic jokes, asked demonstrators to gather in Dam Square and make noise. Twenty thousand people came, screaming and banging pots, pans and drums in the damp autumn night. A progressive society isn't about to go down quietly...