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...tried to hug the tree until the water receded," Beran says. They also grabbed an 8-year-old Swedish girl who had been near them on the beach. In perfect English, she asked, "Oh no, where are my brother and my parents?" The three managed to join an elderly German couple and some Thai men and women in the trees. When the water level dropped, other Thais rescued them. Beran and Spraggon knew how lucky they were. They don't know what happened to the Swedish child after she was rescued or whether her family survived. Tens of thousands...
...missing. So is British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis, but survived by clinging to a palm tree and floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from the war, which I experienced as a boy," Kohl wrote in the tabloid Bild. "It appeared as if after a heavy bombing raid." Amid so much death...
...sometimes to reach it by pretzeled means. Twelve years ago, the very visionary architect Peter Eisenman was commissioned to design a showcase building for the recently unified Berlin, a combination of offices and hotel and retail space to be called the Max Reinhardt Haus, after the also very visionary German theater producer. For inspiration, Eisenman turned to nothing less than the Möbius strip, the 3-D geometric form produced by a single twisted surface. Had it been completed, his 34-story tower would have folded, buckled, twisted and gazed in on itself...
...quotas "will have serious consequences for the European industry," says Bill Lakin, director-general of European trade body Euratex. Brussels could yet trigger safeguards should Chinese imports explode. You can be sure it won't need 10 years to do so. The Schroders' Pet Project With German unemployment approaching 11%, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder understands the need to protect jobs. But he could hardly have expected the howls that greeted the news that his fourth wife Doris Schröder-Köpf had helped German drugstore chain Rossmann develop a range of dog accessories - from shampoos to fake...
...suffering it inflicted during World War II. As a Japanese art student said, "The war is over. It has nothing to do with me." And yet, for the Japanese Prime Minister to regularly visit Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where many notorious war criminals are honored, is equivalent to a German Chancellor's paying homage at a memorial to Adolf Hitler. For the Japanese and the Chinese to respect one another is not to water down history. Henry Kwok Hong Kong...