Word: dresden
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...Then an extremely low-power sensor does its job and sends radio signals to a receiver that collects the data. The sensors can be used to adjust shades on a window, measure air pressure in a tire or regulate temperature and humidity in a building. When the city of Dresden began renovating the Baroque Semper Opera House, it wanted to monitor humidity. But regulations protecting historical buildings prohibited opening the walls to lay cable. So Thermokon, the company that provided the humidity sensors, installed 24 EnOcean-powered devices...
Angela Merkel has been speaking for about 45 minutes to a Dresden campaign rally of some 2,000 people. She's not much of an orator, but her listeners are attentive as they munch sausages and drink beer in the sunshine. Even a group dressed up as cows - holding signs that say don't milk us! to protest her proposed increase to value-added tax ( vat) - are as docile as, well, cattle. Merkel has defended the unpopular policy, meant to fund a reduction in social-security contributions from wages, by arguing that "people don't earn too much in Germany...
...political science at Chemnitz Technical University in eastern Germany, "but when it actually comes to listening and accepting them, we shy away. Although it was extremely courageous for Merkel to come out and say that she'll raise vat, it may not have been a good idea." At the Dresden rally, though, Merkel's brand of plain talking worked for some. "I voted for the Greens in 2002, but I'm going to vote for the cdu this time," says Dagmar Schaarschmidt, 46 and unemployed. "Merkel is being honest and that's why I trust her." So far, Schr...
...Returned Russian Exile Vladimir Horowitz. Since joining the magazine in 1981, Walsh has logged some 50,000 miles a year covering musical events and personalities. In the past 14 months he has visited San Francisco, Japan, London, Paris, Austria, West Germany--and even East Germany, for the opening of Dresden's restored Semper Opera House. "We look for the unusual," says Walsh, "new music of international significance and productions of older music that work especially well or have a special cachet. The only way to keep abreast is to be there, and that means having the stamina...
...Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies. He is the tireless devil's advocate, forcing cadets into deeper analysis and dense moral ground...