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...some ways, the city now is the way it used to be. Before World War II, what became East Berlin was the smart center of town. Unter den Linden, a treelined boulevard that was Germany's answer to Paris' Champs Elysées, led eastwards from the Brandenburg Gate to an island on the Spree packed with neoclassical museums. Behind that was Mitte and the residential district of Prenzlauer Berg. When the Wall went up, the East went down; fine apartment buildings, many of them damaged in the war, decayed further. Some areas were entirely razed to make...
...Southeast Asian Nations in Thailand last month, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama proposed an "East Asian community" that would bind together Japan, China, South Korea and the 10 countries of Southeast Asia, plus India, Australia and New Zealand. Hatoyama - who recently opined that "the era of U.S.-led globalism is coming to an end" - suggested this zone have its own common currency and could some day "lead the world." Less ambitiously, China has suggested a smaller group that would include Southeast Asia plus Japan, China and South Korea. (See how to know when the economy is turning...
...what is now a London suburb and a collection of Victorian-era death masks. One professor put it best: "These objects don't have an intrinsic value." But each has an interesting back-story. The toy car, for example, belonged to a child who suffered from a condition that led him to try to eat everything; subsequently, he suffered from lead poisoning from chewing off the car's paint. Ultimately, however, the marsupial mole won the audience's vote...
...collapse of three Icelandic banks in October 2008 meant cranes across the country came to a halt. A broken economy has led to rock-bottom rents. And while the new lows may have hit local landlords hard, it enabled a kind of tenant once prohibited from the high-traffic destination to move in - emerging fashion designers. "Creativity doesn't stop when the money goes," says Runar Omarsson, co-owner of Nikita, a street-wear line that caters mainly to skate- and snowboarders. "It is important to look at what we have and make something out of it. There are valuable...
Pressuring Lieberman, however, might prompt him to leave the party, a move that would deprive Democrats of their 60th vote, not just on health care but on other issues like global warming and financial regulatory reform. That has led most of his colleagues to soft-pedal their persuasion. "I've talked to Joe several times," says Maryland Senator Ben Cardin. "I think he's interested in getting a bill done...