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...urges that drive us, it's the passion to be held that makes itself known first. If a baby is startled fresh from the womb, German pediatrician Ernst Moro discovered in 1918, its arms will fly up and out, then come together in a desperate clutch. Holding is good, and floating free is bad--a lesson that's not so much learned after birth as preloaded at the factory. In fact, doctors have long known that babies who aren't held simply fail to thrive. Not surprisingly, it's a need we never outgrow. In one way or another...
Absolute Friends bristles with that outrage. It is the story of Ted, a tall, genial, impressionable Englishman, and Sasha, a tiny, misshapen, brilliant, fiercely idealistic German. The two men meet for the first time as fire-breathing anarchists in a counterculture commune in Berlin in the 1960s and, improbably, become fast friends. The book's rhythm is that of their chance meetings. Over the years, Ted drifts into life as a minor diplomat, and a decade later, he re-encounters Sasha at an official reception. Now an East German functionary, Sasha proposes an intelligence operationsmuggling state secrets to the West...
...Meanwhile, new bases will open up in the former Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe. Some G.I.s may even find themselves in Soviet-era bases that they once defended against. "We're not expecting the Soviet Union to launch a major tank war across the north German plain," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said while visiting Iraq last September. "So we need to adjust our footprint." Just how that footprint will change has yet to be decided, Pentagon officials say. They denied reports last week that up to 40,000 soldiers and support staff with the First Armored Division and First...
...million; antidepressants prescribed for quitting smokers rose by 20%. A big year for France 's tough-love tax. - By Bruce Crumley Work Longer! Troubled Commerzbank, Germany 's third-largest bank, announced an end to company pension schemes for its 26,000 employees by 2005. Meanwhile, German insurer Gerling plans cuts of up to 50% in retirement plans for around 5,000 of its own employees...
...there's a long line of firms waiting to come to market. But there's a big, sobering difference from the '90s, says Georg Hansel, head of German equity capital markets at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. "There's an unbelievable increase in activity," he says. "But there are just a few big deals handled by fewer banks. The dotcoms aren't coming back yet." - By William Boston Unseasonal Greetings For U.S. oil-services firm Halliburton, 2003 carried a sting in its tail. Amid recent allegations that it overcharged U.S. tax payers by $61 million for its services, Halliburton unit Kellogg...