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...learned fast, but the British continued to regard the Americans as junior partners long after American divisions were teaching their German enemies lessons in mobility and maneuvers. It was the Americans who led the breakout from Normandy. It was American parachutists who seized all their objectives at Nijmegen and Eindhoven while the British parachutists were defeated at Arnheim in the same operation...
...buyers later this year will likely be Dutch hotels, which will also use them for pay-per-view movies and settling the bill; a home version will be available by 2005. The Mirror TV is the first commercial product from Philips' HomeLab - a two-bedroom, ultra-wired house in Eindhoven, where live-in guests test-run the company's latest gadgets. Coming soon: a stereo that recognizes the tune you're humming and plays the song. Come to think of it, that might be handy in the bath, too. - By Michael Brunton...
...suggesting that "networks previously thought to be struggling are at the very peripheries of much larger, better organized and fully operative structures." There have been key arrests - six Tunisians suspected of plotting a bomb attack in northern Europe were picked up in Italy, France and Malta last month; in Eindhoven last week a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin was apprehended for allegedly plotting a suicide strike - but nothing crippling to the terrorist enterprise as a whole. The evidence was compel- ling enough for the former director of the German intelligence service, Hans-Georg Wieck, to conclude that Hanning's warning...
Determined to prove he was right, Kok rented a warehouse in the gray industrial town of Eindhoven and set about making CDs without the customary multimillion-dollar expense for "clean rooms" to keep stray dust motes and hairs from marring the discs. In place of these rooms Kok built a pickup-truck-size "in line" machine that handled all the stages of production in one clean, compact, enclosed location--thus slicing the cost of producing a CD to 18[cents], from the standard...
...disposable contact lenses and solar-energy cells. His customers include Johnson & Johnson, Royal Dutch Shell, Warner Music and--sweetest of all--his old employer, Philips. "This is a new type of Industrial Revolution--we are killing expensive clean rooms," says Kok, CEO of OTB-Group, with offices in Eindhoven, Hong Kong and Irvine, Calif...