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...lurid graffiti. But in 1996, municipal authorities[an error occurred while processing this directive] launched an urban-regeneration scheme that today is starting to bear real fruit. The sex workers and pushers are gone and a Gürtel address is now one of the most fashionable in the Austrian capital. Cocktail lounges, nightclubs and restaurants that act as a magnet for Vienna's well-heeled scenemakers have replaced the workshops and long-suffering traders who once made their homes beneath the brick archways of the U-bahn - the Gürtel's elevated railway. A restaurant like BABU...
...this sunny, clear day in the Austrian Tyrol, Langes-Swarovski and Buchbauer, two of the 20 family members who manage and work in the privately held company, are seated at a table in a conference room at the corporate headquarters. Floor-to-ceiling windows provide a view onto the 60 other buildings of the corporate and factory complex, which include a water-purification center. There are five cranes on the property, a sign that business is good...
...relaxed lunch hour. Reviews of his new book have been good, and just 24 hours after its release last week, a second printing was ordered. Veltroni cites Philip Roth and Ian McEwan as his favorite contemporary authors. But he also cites a more risqué name, Arthur Schnitzler, the Austrian writer who explored the limits of sexuality and the subconscious, and inspired Stanley Kubrick's film Eyes Wide Shut. Asked if he had any of his own recurring dreams, Veltroni chuckled. "I dream with my eyes open, like any elected official should do," he said. "My job is to interpret...
FOUND. Natascha Kampusch, 18, an Austrian girl who vanished at age 10 while walking to school in Vienna in 1998; by an elderly resident of nearby Strasshof, who called police after finding her roaming the neighborhood. Police said Kampusch's alleged captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train the day she escaped, had held her in the basement of his home. RECOVERING. Albert Ho, 55, Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party vice chairman, after being severely injured by three baton-wielding men who attacked him in a McDonald...
FOUND. Natascha Kampusch, 18, an Austrian girl who vanished at age 10 while walking to school in Vienna in 1998; by an elderly resident of nearby Strasshof, who called police after finding her roaming the neighborhood. Police said Kampusch's alleged captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train the day she escaped, had held her in the basement of his home...