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...warning system, designed by Germany’s largest research institution, the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers. The system will be effective in registering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis and is estimated to cost Germany’s national research center for geosciences, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, roughly 45 million Euro ($60.3 million), a paltry price to pay for the potential lives that will be saved by this early alert system...
...Sensations, 1975: Trying to be a hard-core Emmanuelle, this bit of Euro-decadence by Alberto Ferro (aka Lasse Braun) featured Penthouse Pet Brigitte Maier. She's quite a pretty lass, but doesn't get to do much more than watch until the end, when she accedes to the climactic orgy scene. Seven acolytes of various genders crowd around her, matching their protuberances to her orifices, until she is nearly smothered in closeup. Cut to the seven slowly withdrawing from their feast, and, presto, Maier has disappeared. That's the end -except for the closing credits, where we find that...
...more than a passing nostalgia act on the political stage. But in Italy, the granddaughter of Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and her tiny right-wing Social Alternative party are among the main attractions. Mussolini, whose party polled just over 1% in last year's European elections, trashes the euro and wants to bring back her grandfather's outlawed stiff-armed salute. Last week, she was on hunger strike in a rickety white trailer in a central Rome parking lot to protest her exclusion from next month's regional elections for allegedly submitting fraudulent ballot signatures. She claims...
...Creative Accounting? Eurostat refused to certify Greek and Italian deficit data for 2004, suggesting the figures - 6.1% and 3% of GDP respectively - could yet be revised upward. Euro-zone countries' deficits are capped...
DREW: First off, your cover-art argument is absurd—I don’t understand what importance you’re ascribing to those images, and Oasis used a cheeky Euro-looking logo more effectively than Blur ever did. Moreover, there’s the issue of whether or not cover art really means a damn thing, especially nowadays when a cover is expected to be bizarre and/or “artsy...