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CEDRIC SCHRAPPE, a 4-year-old German, protesting Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plans to slash unemployment benefits for families whose children have more than €750 in piggy-bank savings
...DIED. TIZIANO TERZANI, 65, best-selling author and veteran foreign correspondent for Der Speigel, who covered Vietnam, Cambodia and China in the early Deng Xiaoping era; in Florence, Italy. In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, the Italian-born Terzani detailed his adventures in 1993, when he traveled Asia by land and sea after receiving a warning from a Hong Kong mystic that he might die in an airplane crash that year...
...company's competitive position. Not surprisingly, the union at the Smead factories, C.N.V. Dienstenbond, took a different view - it said the move was illegal. "If Smead goes ahead with the 40-hour workweek on Aug. 1, it can expect a summons the same day," says union leader Siegbert van der Velde. Plenty of Europeans already pull long hours. More than 10 million German employees put in more than 40 hours a week, according to the government. But for the past 30 years, the average European workweek has been shrinking, and falling behind its American and Asian rivals. According to Paul...
Talk about being in synch. Dutch synchronized swimmers Sonja and Bianca van der Velden were even born, via caesarean section, at exactly the same moment 28 years ago in the Dutch city of Nijmegen. In the water at age 3, they started off as speed swimmers. But after trying synchronized swimming they began competing - and winning - at the national level. Bianca defends their choice of this obscure, often ridiculed sport. "It's more than just ballet in the water," she says, noting that speed, power and grace are also required. "People think it's only a smile on the face...
...guest at Borchardt's could bump chairs with German Cabinet Ministers, the Rolling Stones, Leonardo DiCaprio or Cameron Diaz. Hillary Clinton dined here in July 2003 with Stefan Aust, editor of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. "It's very central and the food is good," says Ursula von Langermann, head of the North American division at the German Foreign Ministry. "Whenever I have an international guest I take them here, and if Chancellor (Gerhard) Schr?der or Foreign Minister (Joschka) Fischer walk in, they're just floored...