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...committee replaced another. The contenders were winnowed down from 110 to 30 to nine and finally to three. I flew from New York City to L.A. over and over to answer questions. I flew to Atlanta to show the committee members my High Museum of Art and to Frankfurt, Germany, to take them through my Museum of Decorative Art. Then I did it again with new people. When, toward the end of this ordeal, I was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize, all I could think was, I hope this helps me get the job. What anxiety! And so much work...
...down if the euro is strong. But what really counts is why the currency is rising in the first place. "I think we're in a situation where the euro goes up because the dollar goes down," says Thomas Mayer, chief economist at investment bank Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt. "The biggest worry is that a sharp appreciation of the euro reduces profit expectations in European industry and leads to a broadly based weakness." Take a German-based manufacturer of machine tools, for example. With the euro higher, the price of the company's goods on the world market will have...
GERMANY Authorities swooped down on suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers in late April, arresting members of an alleged cell in raids throughout the country. Meanwhile, the trial of five alleged terrorists has started in Frankfurt. The men, all Algerian, are charged with plotting an attack on a cathedral in the French city of Strasbourg...
...that combats dermatitis. The textile is woven with tiny repositories that contain an anti-dermatitis agent; in response to body heat, the fabric releases the agent onto the skin. The Life Shirt System by California's VivoMetrics, a prizewinner at this year's Avantex high-tech apparel fair in Frankfurt, allows patients who normally need regular hospital checkups to go about their business while the shirt continuously monitors their condition. And the JoyDress by Italian designer Alexandra Fede uses a network of fine, flexible pads to give a soothing massage at the touch of a button. EXOSKELETONS Strength in Bubbles...
GERMANY Courtroom Curses The first major trial of suspected Islamic terrorists linked to the al-Qaeda network got off to a turbulent start in Frankfurt as the court evicted one of the accused for shouting threats and insults in Arabic. Four Algerians face charges of planning to detonate a bomb in the French city of Strasbourg in December 2000. Federal prosecutors say they and a fifth accused all trained in camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1998 and belonged to an international terrorist organization called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The trial is expected to last...