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...remembered. In Allentown, Pa., William Allen High School students will dedicate a 35-ft. mosaic depicting symbols of the events. Volunteers in San Francisco will unfurl artist Pop Zhao's 5-mile-long banner comprising 3,000 American flags and string it along the city's coastline. In Berlin German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder will attend an ecumenical service held in the Berlin Dom. Citizens of Anchorage will be able to make free long-distance phone calls to loved ones at a designated call center. The mayor of Birmingham, Ala., will dedicate the new Memorial Walk, which includes a ribbon-shaped...
...terror and a war without end, some young Israelis just want to have fun. More than 250,000 people are expected for Friday's 'Love Parade' in Tel Aviv, an annual outdoor celebration of rave culture and techno music inspired by the event of the same name in Berlin that has become the largest annual bacchanal in continental Europe...
During his three-year stint as Swiss envoy to Berlin, Borer, 45, did just that. He and his wife Shawne Fielding, 34, a former Texas beauty queen, became fixtures on the German capital's party circuit and in the popular press. Establishment figures back home may have been perturbed by Fielding's appearance in a German magazine photo spread, but Borer makes no apology for the shots of his glamorous blonde wife in a strapless gown astride a horse and toting toy guns in a red miniskirt - a dollar sign above her cleavage - on the roof the newly refurbished embassy...
...Borer, a lawyer by training, is putting his talents to use in his new career as a Berlin-based investment banker and lobbyist. Swiss, the national airline that replaced the bankrupt Swissair, has just hired him as a consultant in a bid to revamp its image. An interesting choice, considering all that Borer has personally done to shake up his country's staid reputation...
...tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow