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DETROIT Eero Saarinen The first ever retrospective of the influential Finnish architect's work (above) opens at the Saarinen-designed General Motors Technical Center (Nov. 17--March...
...four-year-old company is getting by on $900,000 in financing from the Finnish government and venture-capital backers. Happonen envisions a day when his paper battery could power electronic paper. Ironically, one paper product, the SoftBattery, would undermine the future of another, traditional writing and print paper. The world could then hold onto a few more of its trees. That would be no little thing...
...latest technology. Customers can use cutting-edge wireless application protocol (WAP) browsers, built into the latest generation of European phones, which allow customers to enjoy full Internet access to their accounts. WAP phone owners can check account balances, pay bills, transfer money and even buy shares on the Finnish stock market...
...more is on the way. One service already attracting a lot of attention is a pilot project between MeritaNordbanken, the Finnish cell-phone maker Nokia, and Visa International, the credit-card company. Nokia will soon have available in Finland cell phones that contain two chips, one for mobile-telephone service and one from Visa that adds a nifty credit-card function to the handset. The Visa chip will allow a customer to hold the phone near a cash register and push a button to pay a bill rather than having a clerk swipe a credit card. The digital mobile phone...
...audience can see the spirits that are dancing, hear the music, but the actors can’t necessarily have access to that field of vision during the play. It adds another field of dimension.” Music Director Julia S. Carey ’08 chose Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ music for “The Tempest” for this production. Just as “The Tempest” was Shakespeare’s final play, this was Sibelius’s last major work. “At this point in his life...