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...choice. In 1967, for example, the first hippies were detected in San Francisco, and within a year the historic fountains of Europe were crowded with pot-smoking young people clad only in feathers. In 1984 America produced the first yuppies, who have since moved on to infest London and Frankfurt. Why, the very concept of life-style is an American invention, implying that there is more than one choice...
...Iceman's day, much of the world had made the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic society -- from the Old to the Late Stone Age -- a change that University of Frankfurt prehistorian Jens Luning calls "the revolutionary event in human history." It marked the transition from subsistence hunting and gathering to agriculture and the domestication of animals; the stockpiling of food; extensive use of copper; the manufacture of increasingly sophisticated tools and pottery. A dependable food supply in turn led to a population explosion: by about 4000 B.C. there were an estimated 86.5 million people on earth, about eight times...
...sent Tokyo's stock exchanges into a dizzying vortex last week, markets from Amsterdam to Zurich did some rocking and rolling of their own. Tokyo's Nikkei average sank to 15,498 points, its lowest level in more than six years, while the London stock exchange fell 2.3% and Frankfurt shares dropped 5.4%. New York's Big Board sank 46 points, or 1.4%, in a week of generally bearish trading...
...Chicago exchanges are betting that foreign traders will flock back to the U.S. through Globex. So far, the London and Paris exchanges have signed up to use the system; the Tokyo, Frankfurt, Hong Kong and Zurich exchanges are expected to follow suit. Says Globex chairman Leo Melamed: "This is a way to extend our market around the globe across all borders and time zones...
...FRANKFURT AUTO SHOW LAST fall, BMW unveiled its vision of the future of driving. Called the E1, it is a four-seat car with a top speed of 120 km/h (75 m.p.h.) and a range of up to 250 km (155 miles). Not so swift, you say? But this car is a clean machine: it gives off no pollution that could foul the air in any way. The E1 runs on an electric motor powered by high-energy sodium-sulfur batteries. Although it takes electricity to charge the batteries, the power plants can be far from smoggy cities...