Word: dresden
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...Systemonic Private company based in Dresden, Germany CEO: Ruediger Stroh What it does: Developer of a broadband wireless chip that aims to understand all major standards, allowing seamless roaming with any broadband wireless device between any network on any continent Why it is hot: Its technology can be applied across many areas of the wireless semiconductor market, estimated to be worth $18 billion by 2004 www.systemonic.com
True awfulness sets in when collateral damage is no longer collateral but becomes the intended point. Innocents are terrorized as a matter of policy. Stalin's Ukrainian famine, the rape of Nanking, the London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order to break an enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands...
...returned to Dresden recently in October of 1998, where you narrowly survived a firebombing that killed hundreds of thousands. The location was also central to Slaughterhouse Five. How do humanists look at such events...
...lived in Dresden, and at least once a camera caught him shopping in West Berlin. But he seems to have spent most of his time as deputy director of the backwater House of German-Soviet Friendship in Leipzig collecting, analyzing and passing on bits of information. He was thought to be close to his counterparts in the East German intelligence service, Stasi, who were notorious for their crude repression, though he claims he "never saw it." He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, respectable but hardly stellar...