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...Avoid the sections of the river that run parallel to the noisy, traffic-clogged autobahn, and stick instead with havens like the flat, unpaved trail that skirts the northern edge of Dillingen, a factory town of roughly 18,000 in Germany's southwest. Despite the proximity of urban development (Munich is just a 45-minute drive away), the area is rich in wildlife. Look out for hungry ducks and other fowl dive-bombing a river teeming with fish, plus the occasional huntsman, struggling to get an overexcited dog to heel...
...prefer hunting down cultural treasures, then call at one of the many historic towns and cities built on the Danube's banks. Budapest, Hungary's capital, is one of the most graceful. The Danube (or Duna in Hungarian) divides the city into the hilly side (Buda) and the flat side (Pest), from which it gets its name. Jog through the former and you can check out the gorgeous 15th century Royal Palace and the 700-year-old Matthias Church. Pick up a trail on the latter for views of the neo-Gothic parliament building and the beautiful Central Market Hall...
...Danube is now a more lighthearted place. On any given Sunday, whole stretches of it are abuzz with dog walkers and horse riders as well as runners. Avoid the sections of the river that run parallel to the noisy, traffic-clogged autobahn, and stick instead to havens like the flat, unpaved trail that skirts the northern edge of Dillingen, a factory town of roughly 18,000 in Germany's Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...extended direct quotation that is among the book’s many illuminating moments, Sandel cautions Friedman: “A flat, frictionless world is a mixed blessing. It may, as you suggest, be good for global business. Or it may, as Marx believed, augur well for a proletarian revolution. But it may also pose a threat to the distinctive places and communities that give us our bearings, that locate us in the world. … Some of these inefficiencies are institutions, habits, cultures, and traditions that people cherish precisely because they reflect nonmarket values like social cohesion, religious...
Friedman’s rejoinder is that, from an American perspective, one can legitimately perceive outsourcing as exploitation of cheap foreign labor but that the flat world may require trading one person’s unemployment for another’s economic liberation. But, confined so closely to his economic mode of analysis, Friedman has replied to a vastly different trade-off than the one Sandel posited. The critical issue is not merely to whom economic benefit is allocated at whose expense, but also to what extent it should be pursued at all in the face of competing claims...