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...after the election in September - had better keep this development going. - By Ursula Sautter Next Year's Model The average working life of a car, statistics say, is 16 years. Jürgen Schrempp, head of DaimlerChrysler since 1995, didn't last quite that long. Schrempp is the architect of the controversial 1998 tie-up of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler, the biggest between two firms in industrial history. The merger, he expected, would combine the strengths of the powerful, complementary automotive firms and create a competitive, international corporation. Since then, he's been criticized for expanding at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 7/31/2005 | See Source »

...Hiroshima officials struck on the idea of reinventing the city. They proposed the construction of a large peace memorial as the city's new anchor. The memorial eventually became the Peace Memorial Park, a graceful 30-acre site not far from ground zero, designed by the late famed Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hiroshima Rose From the Ashes | 7/26/2005 | See Source »

...blue panels display gentle Tai Chi and qigong-like exercises. Communications agency owner David Güggenbuhl, who worked with Chinese doctors to develop Bluetrail, says, "One requirement was that these exercises could be done in a suit and tie without looking ridiculous." Certainly, nobody snickers when local architect David Marquardt, 38, drops his briefcase and performs a series of slow, graceful movements. And after finishing the 10th of 16 activities, he declares, "I feel like my body and spirit are in unison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Suits | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...actually think I fell out of my seat at first--all I could see was smoke." Eventually, emergency workers moved passengers to the back of the train and up into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train on the adjacent track. "I had the feeling I was in a fish tank," says Thioulouse, "seeing people in the opposite car with their faces completely covered by blood." People tried to cheer each another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...politicians from the region and beyond assemble in Srebrenica to mark the anniversary with the usual "never again" vows, one simple fact speaks louder than any of their words: General Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb military leader who was the chief architect of the war crime at Srebrenica, remains at large - presumed to be hiding in Serbia, under the protection of elements of the military and police who see him as a war hero. Unfortunately, millions of Serbs share this view, remaining in dogged denial over the deeds of the fugitive general and, even more importantly, over Serbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-mail From Belgrade: Srebrenica War Crime Haunts Serbia | 7/9/2005 | See Source »

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