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...enjoy distance running, the Danube's long, flat stretches offer rich opportunities. Among the best-known routes is that of the Linz Marathon, which kicks off every April in the Austrian town famous for its torte (last month's saw over 10,000 competitors take part). Those planning to enter 2006's should start training now. Those not contemplating anything quite as strenuous should get down to the waterway anyway. The fresh air and ever-changing riverscapes will have you waltzing through your workout...
...city's famous bathhouses. Two top picks are the neo-Roman Gellert Baths and the Lukacs Baths, both on the Buda side of town. If you enjoy distance running, the Danube's long, flat stretches offer rich opportunities. Among the best-known routes is that of the Linz Marathon, which kicks off every April in the Austrian town famous for its torte - an almond pastry with a lattice top over jam. Over 10,000 competitors took part in last month's race, and those planning to enter in 2006 should start training now. Those not contemplating anything quite as strenuous...
Raymond Hallery, now a retired publisher, was in an adjunct of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz when the official announcement that the Germans had surrendered came over the prisoners' long-secret radio. The French began singing the Marseillaise. "There was the joy of being alive, but it was mixed with much sadness," Hallery says. "Two hundred to three hundred people a day were still dying in the camp, from exhaustion and hunger. There were bodies everywhere." Hallery went to the infirmary where one of his friends lay nearing the end. "I know I'm finished," the friend said...
...murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, he claimed he was no longer interested in the top job. "I have to give way to violence," he said. But the biggest threat to him comes from Freedomite faithful who might not have backed his leadership bid. At a party meeting in Linz he was severely criticized for bringing down the government. "This is the end of the Haider era," says Peter Sichrovsky, the outgoing general secretary of the party, who resigned last week in protest over Haider's "putsch." Sichrovsky remorsefully adds, "We failed to get the party out of the extremist corner...
...lucky, as torrential downpours sent floodwaters raging from the Baltic to the Black Sea, killing at least 100 people and causing billions of dollars' worth of damage to buildings, infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake blanketed the Eferdinger Basin, an agricultural area west of Linz, and at least seven people died. In Germany, large tracts of Saxony and Bavaria - including much of Dresden - were submerged, with about a dozen people killed. And in Russia, flash floods and tornadoes along the Black Sea coast razed homes and businesses and killed dozens, many of them holidaymakers...