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MEANWHILE UP IN THE SKY ... Scratch Landing A pet cat that escaped from its flight bag forced an SN Brussels airplane on its way to Vienna to turn back after 20 minutes. The cat made its way into the cockpit and scratched the copilot "aggressively" on the arm. Brushing aside fears of a feline terror plot, the airline promptly launched a new advertisement promoting the quality of its in-flight food under the slogan "Fresh fish every day" - and featuring a picture...
...back in Germany, farmer Winkelmann is enjoying the boom. His farm, called Flottwedel, offers guests a hay bed plus a sumptuous breakfast for €12 per adult and €9 for kids between 6 and 12 (j7 for 2- to 6-year-olds). You have to bring a sleeping bag, but there are two newly installed showers. That comes in handy for the kids, says holiday farmhand Ast. "They throw themselves into the hay and roll around to get down and dirty. It's any child's dream come true!" And maybe a few farmers' dreams...
...disappointing to not have enough money on my card to pay for the machines,” Jennifer R. Schiffman ’06 wrote in an e-mail. “I think I’d also find it equally disappointing to be unable to buy a bag of chips or soda at 3 in the morning due to low funds...
...luxury-goods makers, it's a high-stakes battle. Louis Vuitton's Murakami bag, for example, generated more than $300 million in sales last year. It's hard to quantify exactly how much money a luxury brand loses to counterfeiting, since investigators and manufacturers say most people who buy fakes wouldn't pay for the real thing anyway. The larger risk is that the brand will get devalued. Brandmakers fight counterfeiting "not because they feel this will steal a genuine quantifiable sale from them," says luxury-goods analyst Andrew Gowen of Lazard & Co. in London, "but because of the overexposure...
...life is returning to a certain normality. Outside the Caffit cafe in the city's German Colony, twice a target for attempted suicide bombings, an Ethiopian Jew checks bags and swipes a metal detector over would-be diners before unlatching the security gate. Most of the restaurant guards in Jerusalem are drawn from the underprivileged Ethiopian community--few others are willing to take a low-paying job that could lead to a terrible death. The Ethiopian security check has become so quotidian that only the naivete of a child can expose the strangeness of it. As an Israeli woman walked...