Word: austria
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...weeks after competing at the NCAA tournament and completing her collegiate season, Cross traveled to Austria where she fenced the best in the world at the under-20 Junior World Championships. Following in the pattern of her season, Cross captured the gold in the foil—her second individual win at the competition...
...find work. Nobody in Germany invited the current economic disaster, but it's happening. Wowereit and his party's cronies typify "old Europe." The Americans are right. Europe is like an old man: totally lacking the strength to tackle the challenges of the new millennium. Albert Brenner Bad Voeslau, Austria London's mayor Ken Livingstone solves problems with brio in the energetic spirit of New York City's legendary Fiorello La Guardia. Livingstone deals with the problems of cars, buses and the underground with pragmatism and technocratic efficiency, using American-style executive authority. Londoners have warmed to his common sense...
...listen. "That's one of the issues of new music," she says. "What are you listening for? It could be about the way the clarinet gives a sound to the cello. Or maybe rhythm is more important. Or texture." Lim's sonic world has that in abundance. For Austria's Salzburg Festival in August, Lim hopes to put to song the Aboriginal concept of kalyuyuru, "which is like water shimmering as it falls," she explains. Completing the metaphor, husband Daryl Buckley likens Lim's musical career to "a bright flowing river." Runs deep...
DIED. MARIA SCHELL, 79, stunning, soulful international movie star of such films as the 1954 World War II drama The Last Bridge, Luchino Visconti's White Nights and, opposite Gary Cooper, the 1959 western The Hanging Tree; after a battle with pneumonia; in her hometown of Preitenegg, Austria. Schell, who sporadically withdrew from acting because she suffered from physical and emotional strains, was the subject of the acclaimed 2002 documentary My Sister Maria by her brother, actor-director Maximilian Schell...
...Science Museum. It is about the size of Kawamoto's Peace Museum, and it too tells the story of an event and its consequences. Exhibits are arranged to indicate causalities. Einstein's letter to F.D.R. is located on a wall below a newspaper headline of the times: GERMANY ANNEXES AUSTRIA. There is a letter from Groves to Oppenheimer, requesting that Oppenheimer avoid flying in airplanes: "The time saved is not worth the risk." A photograph shows the July 16, 1945, Trinity test explosion at Alamogordo, looking like a glazed white coffee cup overturned on a bed of suds...