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...rise in 2006 in exchange for a job guarantee until 2012. The company's 15,000 research and development employees will also work a 40-hour week instead of the current 35 hours. Automaker Opel is now thinking of increasing its workweek at its factory near Essen in western Germany. Leading German politicians expressed outrage at the hard-line employer tactics. "Germany's future does not lie in low wages," fumed Franz Müntefering, chairman of the ruling Social Democratic party. Some politicians demanded that executives at companies give up part of their salary before demanding wage cuts...
First up is the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, which opens in June. Next year will see the completion of the Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio and the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany. The Zollverein School and the New Museum are set to open...
...guest curator, and Sandra S. Phillips, the museum's chief curator of photography, is poised to be one of the blockbusters of the next few years. After it closes in San Francisco on Feb. 8, it travels (and travels) to Los Angeles; Houston; and New York City; then to Essen, Germany; London; and Minneapolis, Minn...
...people who frequent the mosque at the academy have had direct or indirect contact with al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab, though not charged with any crime, is one such person. He came to Germany in 1986, and in 1995 completed a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He moved to Bonn in 2000. While in Duisburg, Abdelwahab led an Islamic study group, one member of which was Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam who is in police custody in France and has admitted ties to al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab admits to knowing Ganczarski, but "Does that mean...
...information highway, and people are using the Web to help reduce congestion on the tarmac too. At www.autobahn.nrw.de, drivers in North-Rhine Westphalia can see a real-time simulation of traffic conditions on its 2,250 km of motorway. The man behind the site, Michael Schreckenberg of Duisburg-Essen University, is now at work on the world's largest traffic-information system, using sensor-gathered data to channel travel advice to TV, radio and motorway screens. If you still can't face the rush hour, try staying home like the 2% of Europeans who now telework daily. BIKES...