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When the Detroit auto show opens this week, horsepower gains will take center stage as usual, with a parade of bulked-up cars, crossovers and light trucks. But some of the most interesting vehicles on display will be small, even tiny. Audi will showcase a model called the A3, a 200-h.p. hatchback sold in Europe and coming to U.S. dealers in May. Mercedes will unveil its smallest import, a wagonlike "sport tourer" dubbed the Baby Benz, expected to start around $25,000. And get this: DaimlerChrysler will officially launch in the U.S. the Smart brand that has been such...
...preserved using a special invisible polymer. "Body Worlds," which toured cities in Europe and Asia before opening in L.A. last summer, places the see-through bodies in various poses--playing basketball, practicing yoga, riding a bicycle--to show in graphic detail how the human body works. Also on display: 175 human body parts, from a liver damaged by cirrhosis to lungs diseased from smoking...
...World of Tsingtao, tel: (86-532) 383 3437, who can argue? Located in the Yellow Sea port from which it takes its name, the museum at China's best-known brewery contains two-dozen exhibits that bear titles like "Mystic Yeast." The Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 gets a display, as does a 4,000-year-old Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the goddess of brewing. Better still, the guide promises that at the tour's final stop, "visitors can sample all kinds of fresh Tsingtao beer." But first you have to learn how. A display explains the proper procedure...
...absurdity and destructiveness of war are on full display here, stripped of facile notions of patriotism and honor. Sides and nations seem immaterial: the French officers often act against their own troops, even shooting one of their own men, and, as shown in Jodie Foster’s brilliant portrayal of a German woman who aids Mathilde in her search, everyone seems to resent the idea of battle far more than they do their supposed enemy...
...earn your own degree with chess, which anyone can do,” he says. “You simply display your ability on the board...