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...headstones, although in truth, her husband was alive. He was living in West Berlin and Niebank had been separated from him for four months. Now she was looking for a concealed tunnel which would reunite them. Soon after their wedding, the cemetery had been divided by a cinder-block barrier, part of a fortification some 100 miles (160 km) in length which would eventually consist of a row of reinforced-concrete panels, a second fence and a "death strip" patrolled by snipers. Its architects called the structure an "antifascist protection wall" but Berliners knew it simply as die Mauer...
...this year, and we'll do it sustainably through to 2020. We'll nearly urbanize the population of the United States over the next 10 years.' I can be very assured that I can place my bets for the company." Of course, Jackson wasn't betting that Beijing would block Coke's proposed $2.4 billion acquisition of Chinese juicemaker Huiyuan, which would have been the largest sale to a foreign company in China's commercial history. But the Ministry of Commerce blocked the deal on antitrust grounds, saying the merger would give Coke too much control of the country...
...kids on the block - Truvia and PureVia - have seemingly addressed the obstacles that have kept stevia products from entering the mainstream...
...wanted to deal directly with Washington, as it did in 1994 when it negotiated the so-called "Agreed Framework" with the Clinton administration - the first instance in which Pyongyang agreed to stop work on its nuclear program. Kim has always wanted to deal with the biggest dog on the block, both for reasons of international prestige (see the former pariah now sitting down with the world foremost power), as well as to marginalize its neighbors South Korea and Japan. From North Korea's perspective, Obama's willingness to sit down directly is already a diplomatic victory of sorts. (See pictures...
...From there, I'd head to the historic Misir Apartment block in Beyoglu, home to some of the country's best contemporary-art galleries. For a light aperitif overlooking Old Istanbul, I'd either go to 360, tel: (90-212) 251 1042, on the rooftop, or to nearby Leb-i Derya, tel: (90-212) 251 1008. For dinner I'd meet my wife at the Dragon, tel: (90-212) 231 6200, an Istanbul classic, for Chinese food, and then go to a jazz concert at the atmospheric open-air theater next door...