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...foreign companies that invest more than $20 million a year in Iran's energy sector, and last week Royal Dutch Shell admitted that could put in jeopardy its projected $10 billion investment in an Iranian gas field in cooperation with Spain's Repsol. Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer said, "I would like to emphasize that we have here quite a dilemma. This is Iran. They are the number two in oil and gas reserves in the world.... But we have all the short-term political concerns...
...There is a certain kind of laughing that brings knowledge and understanding," Levy said. Not all reviews have been damning. Writing in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, critic Daniel Haas praised Levy for "dar[ing] the outrageous.... The film is not only about Hitler but about the way in which we are dealing with the brown terror," he said. In fact, after more than a half century of struggling with Hitler's calamitous legacy, Germans do appear to be taking a slightly less tortured view of their past. Downfall, a serious treatment of Hitler's last days, appeared in cinemas...
Ostheim in der Rhoen is a quiet German town in northern Bavaria. Picture-book pretty, with narrow, winding streets, it doesn't seem like a place where anything - let alone anything hip - ever happens. But this bucolic hamlet is the birthplace of Bionade, an all-natural soft drink that's become a national sensation (it more than tripled sales last year), one that its creators now hope to export worldwide...
...replica that has already appeared in the U.S., Italy, Germany and Hong Kong, where it recently drew more than 8,000 people. Photos of victims of the Kashmir earthquake, Rwandan genocide and Ethiopian famines are displayed. But behind the tragedy, the camp is testament to human resourcefulness. Dick van der Tak, MSF's executive director in Hong Kong, points to sandals made from tire scraps and toys from tin cans. "It's important to remember the normalcy of everyday life, and every person's humanity," he says. For information, go to msf.org
...Photos of victims of the Kashmir earthquake, Rwandan genocide and Ethiopian famines are displayed. But behind the tragedy, the camp is testament to human resourcefulness. Dick van der Tak, MSF's executive director in Hong Kong, points to sandals made from tire scraps and toys from tin cans. "It's important to remember the normalcy of everyday life, and every person's humanity," he says. For information, go to msf.org...