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...recent years, the TGV high-speed trains and the Channel Tunnel have given the city back its medieval role as the crossroads linking London, Paris and Brussels. British, Dutch and German visitors have already rediscovered the historic capital of Flanders and its beautifully renovated 17th and 18th century Vieux Lille, or Old Town...
...Unknown, at least, to tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped at Manas airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps, they make a nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt hats...
...that housing in Milan should go to native Italians "and not to the first 'bingo bongo' who comes along." In Rotterdam, the party started by slain anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn now controls the municipal council of a city in which more than half the population is of non-Dutch origin. Two weeks ago its leaders said the city would start demanding that newcomers speak decent Dutch and have a job paying 20% more than the minimum wage. The council has requested a four-year moratorium on settling more political refugees in the city, and has vowed to stop building...
...down 30 km of tarmac into Bishkek. The snow-capped Tien Shan Mountains rear up like a tsunami. But unlike Nepal or other lauded upland destinations, this country and its capital are still an unknown quantity. Unknown, at least, to tourists, because they're pretty familiar to the French, Dutch, American and Norwegian troops from the U.S.-led antiterror coalition camped at Manas airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps, they make a nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt...
...wide army claiming 20,000 motorists who share tips on radar-detection devices and speed traps. Kolijn argues that the devices penalize speed instead of bad driving, but adds, "We don't condone vandalism." Yet the cameras work, slowing average speeds and cutting accidents. Leendert de Lange, of the Dutch national prosecutor's office, credits cameras with helping bring road fatalities to under 1,000 a year, from over 3,000 two decades ago. "The Tuf-tuf people are wrong," he says...