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...like the Big Brother mentality," explains senator Jean-Marie Dedecker, a Flemish conservative. And not just in Belgium. Some 30 cameras are attacked every year in the Netherlands. In the U.K., Motorists Against Detection says it's destroyed hundreds. The mother of such crusades is the Tuf-tuf Club. Harald Kolijn, 33, from Helmond in the southern Netherlands, started it as a joke in 2000 with a friend. It's since mushroomed into a Europe-wide army claiming 20,000 motorists who share tips on radar-detection devices and speed traps. Kolijn argues that the devices penalize speed instead...
...city. The Berlin police force will hire only 100 new officers a year until 3,000 jobs have been cut through attrition. Berlin has withdrawn from the association of German public employers, which agreed to a 4% wage increase for civil servants nationwide earlier this year. Economy Minister Harald Wolf says Berlin is instead offering wage cuts in exchange for not firing thousands of workers. Roland Tremper of the Verdi public sector trade union calls this "a stab in the back for all employees." The grim mood extends far beyond the arcane details of the city budget. Last week Berliners...
...What shall I do? Order you to shoot?" As a crowd of 20,000 of his countrymen implored him to "Open the gate!" on that chaotic Thursday evening, Harald Jager, head of passport control at the Berlin Wall's Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint, kept shouting that rhetorical question at the guards under his command. It was nearly 11 p.m., four hours since Jager heard the stunning news on TV: the East German Politburo, responding to weeks of peaceful demonstrations and a flood of refugees fleeing through Hungary and Czechoslovakia, had announced that all citizens could leave East Germany at any crossing...
Remember when bluetooth was going to change your life? Named after Harald Bl?tand, a Viking King who united Norway and Denmark in the 10th century, Bluetooth (English for Bl?tand) is a wire-free way to unite electronic devices - and it promised to eliminate cabling for good. Originally dreamed up by Ericsson and released as an international standard in 1998, Bluetooth has been the subject of the wildest predictions; one report issued last year said that by 2006, Bluetooth-enabled devices would generate an astounding $333 billion in revenue. So far, Bluetooth has failed to live up to its hype. Analysts...
That done, the members can look forward to their next important gathering: on Dec. 9, the night before Carter receives his medal from King Harald, he will dine with the committee at the Grand Hotel. The Little Dinner, as it's called, is a chance "for a face-to-face, heart-to-heart talk," says St?lsett. "The laureate knows he has our respect - so it's fun." The most memorable Little Dinner was in 1994, when Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin broke bread together. They talked "like old friends," recalls Lundestad, "about Jerusalem, block by block, who lived...