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...repressed my middle school days so thoroughly that almost nothing reminds me of them now, but in my few weeks in Berlin, the city has repeatedly evoked those troubled times. It's mostly been general impressions: of being reduced to a vocabulary that lacks words like “recommend”; of having to spell-check every piece of writing anyone else might see, even a three-line email; of, at 5’7”, fitting into approximately the same place in the Teutonic height spectrum as I did in the American one 8 years ago, when...
...that he minds. "Everyone should have my problems," says Kennedy, in the elegant 19th century London house he shares with his wife and their two children. They have other homes in Paris and Berlin and on the Maltese island of Gozo. "I'm published in every English-speaking country in the world except the U.S. I'm translated into 18 languages, including Romanian and Lithuanian. They love me in Vilnius...
...artists, from earnest Abstract Expressionists to punning Postmodernists, the show follows a similar pattern to the one seen in Bonn earlier this year, and commemorates the 70th anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the New York-based art behemoth that has spread its museum tentacles to Bilbao, Berlin, Las Vegas and, perhaps next, Abu Dhabi. But what makes these five works stand out is not only the fascinating fingerprint of one of the 20th century's most influential collectors but the almost unbelievable logistics of bringing the works (conservatively valued at $15.3 million) by crane, boat, truck and plane...
...around 100 years to the advent of the auto industry. And vehicle parts still comprise around 75% of the global market. But the industry is diversifying and picking up steam. "The growth potential for remanufacturing is enormous," says Günther Seliger, an engineer at the Technical University of Berlin. The entire reman industry is too sprawling and amorphous to be accurately tracked - it includes products as diverse as copiers, medical equipment, compressors, single - use cameras and mobile phones. But, according to the Cologne office of the Automotive Parts Remanufacturers Association (APRA), the European remanufactured auto-parts sector alone...
...Hanning is referring to the general possibility of an attack rather than any specific threat, hoping to make Germans more alert to suspicious activities, and also raising pressure on any terror cells already in place. Says Rolf Tophoven, director of the Institute for Terrorism Research and Security Policy in Berlin, "Where there is no evidence, you must do things to shock terrorists in order to prevent them from acting...