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...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...
...date, an apparent terrorist attack on the Tunisian island of Djerba targeted one of the last remnants of North Africa's 2,000-year-old Jewish community. The attack, which may have been timed to coincide with the start of the trial of five al-Qaeda suspects in Frankfurt, left 16 people dead, including 11 German tourists. Arab leaders think the U.S. must do more to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into ending Israel's incursion and making peace with Arafat instead of humiliating him. "Without active U.S. assistance, the region will face many problems," said Lebanese Prime Minister...
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...