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...MUNICH German royalty can't get enough of Ralph Lauren's lizard Dylan ($1,295)--and neither can celebrities. Karolina Kurkova and Jennifer Garner own it in orange...
Lothar Bisky has a complaint. A retired professor in the former East German state of Brandenburg, he earned less than professors in West Germany did - and he'll get a smaller pension, too. But Bisky has a loud megaphone: today he's the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the heir to the former East German Communist Party. "All this discrimination harms the dignity of the people," he says - and his message resonates among voters in eastern Germany. With two state elections in the east this Sunday, the PDS is expected to perform better than at any time...
...Monsanto to resist certain insects, can now be grown anywhere in the E.U. Environmental groups fear cross-contamination of conventional crops. Pay Up POLAND Parliament unanimously passed a resolution demanding that the government seek reparations from Germany for the destruction and losses suffered by Poland as a result of "German aggression, occupation and genocide" during World War II. The move was seen as a response to pressure by the Prussian Claims Society, a group of Germans seeking compensation for property lost when they were forced out of territories handed to Poland after 1945 - a claim angrily rejected by Poles...
...Engine Trouble Blaming high German labor costs and a stagnant auto market, Volkswagen said it could cut 30,000 jobs unless employees accept a two-year pay freeze...
...that he's not keen on more invasions. After three years of criticizing Bush for high-handedness, some foreign officials at the G8 summit in June saw a real change. U.S. officials, they said, were more willing to listen, more interested in finding a pragmatic solution to their differences. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, long in the White House doghouse after opposing the war in Iraq, was moved to declare after a meeting with Bush at the summit, "There has been a remarkable change in the American foreign policy." Of course, many were saying that back when Bush went...