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...wonder What Christmas present should you give to the frequent traveler who has everything? A great book, of course - and this year, competition for the Yuletide dollar has travel publishers offering up some terrific new choices. Among the better picks is Lonely Planet's new guide to the entire globe. Aptly titled The Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world - all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories - in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of local knowledge as well...
Through it all the seasons cycle, the planet spins, and the world goes round. It blends the local with the global. “Sometimes you lose every nickel you had, but the world goes ‘round.” A luminescent orange globe is a fixture in the background, as is pianist Ben E. Green ’06, whose keyboard stands directly behind the glowing sphere. The two enjoy a mutually reinforcing relationship. The World Goes ’Round is, therefore, a successful attempt to localize all the world to the musical stage...
...film, A Very Long Engagement.) The foundation of internationally successful writers like Amélie Nothomb and Bernard-Henri Lévy is, of course, their command of French. Rapper MC Solaar makes crafty, creative use of French lyrics. And Publicis ceo Maurice Lévy has assembled the globe's fourth-largest advertising network without diluting the agency's French flair. In all these cases, a willingness to use English hasn't meant selling French short. "Once you demonstrate you can do that too, it gives you more credibility when you want discussion to take place in French," notes...
...prices and flat demand, rising costs and competition from Asia turned steel belts into rust belts as once-mighty American titans like LTV and Bethlehem Steel went belly up. Many of Europe's former communist bloc governments determinedly sold off their dilapidated, money-losing steel mills. Workers around the globe were bounced out of the devilishly cyclical industry in droves. Even bosses were shying away: in 1998, Michael Frenzel, then chairman of German industrial concern Preussag, became so fed up with the smokestack rollercoaster that he embarked on a program to transform Preussag - now TUI - into a travel firm, selling...
...report in the Boston Globe on Oct. 23, two officers stated that the weapons which were used to kill Victoria Snelgrove had only been purchased for the Democratic National Convention this summer and that they had never been used outside of training. In addition, one anonymous officer stated that only a “handful” of the officers in the riot control unit had even been trained to use the weapons...