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...glass beads - one for each of the 25 E.U. member states, plus Turkey. Verheugen's pink cheeks beamed from the front page of every newspaper, while posters proclaimed: citizen verheugen! welcome to greater europe! Nothing spoiled the fun - not an attack by Kurdish militants on a nearby police outpost during his stay, nor even a last-minute hiccup over a Turkish measure that would have criminalized adultery. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who at first supported the adultery proposal to appease conservative allies, agreed to drop it, and last week pushed a 700-page package of penal-code reforms...
...reverberate through the electorate more loudly even than the Bali massacre: "Bali was an attack on a tourist center; this was an attack on Australia. Australians are going to be more concerned about terrorism than ever before." Whether voters decide this bombing, the first such attack on an Australian outpost, marks a stepping up of terrorists' focus on Australia or that it is more a consequence of turmoil in Indonesia, they're on new ground in this election campaign...
...Time Warner Center in New York City inaugurated E, a posh $24,000-a-year facility for 200 invitation-only guests; Casa Casuarina--formerly Gianni Versace's home in South Beach--is set to become a members-only club; the British concierge service Quintessentially is opening an outpost in Miami following its recent launches in South Africa and Beijing; and in Tokyo individuals with assets of more than $920,000 can hire celebrity sushi chefs and geishas for private parties through Club Concierge. In a competitive social and economic environment, trading up--whether it's paying a premium...
...people trying to exploit cracks in the system to fish illegally and traffic in drugs, firearms and people. Starting on Thursday Island, the region's administrative hub, Time tags along with marine and land-based Customs officers to find out exactly what border protection means in this key outpost. "It's busy - or it's busier," says Steve Jeffs, Customs' Torres Strait district manager, of the agency's enforcement tasks. "The more time we spend out there, gathering intelligence, being part of the community, the more work it generates. And there's no such thing as seasonal crime...
Some of the best examples of that rethinking now fill two large galleries of the Museum of Modern Art's temporary outpost in Queens, N.Y. Using 25 spectacular architectural models (some 14 ft. high), "Tall Buildings," a show that runs at MOMA through Sept. 27, looks at the ways in which the skyscraper has evolved since the early '90s, at least in the hands of its most gifted practitioners, the kind who are proposing--and, hey, even producing, but usually in other nations--buildings that don't resemble the bland boxes that crowd most American downtowns. Nobody wants to summon...