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Northwestern (7-5) was able to overcome the loss of junior middle blocker Erika Lange, who sprained her knee Friday night against DePaul, behind a strong performance from 6’0 Iwona Lodzick. The Poland native tallied 16 kills and 19 digs to lead the Wildcats to victory...
...them), along with 100,000 never-before-published family photographs. Also this month, and also on the Internet, an actor and part-time researcher in the Czech Republic will begin posting the results of his unusual labors - recording the inscriptions on ancient Jewish tombstones (see accompanying story). And in Poland, plans are afoot to build a new museum that will recreate homes, streets and whole villages representing 800 years of Jewish life. The museum will be constructed on the site of the infamous Warsaw ghetto. Discussions are under way with American architect Frank Gehry, the son of Polish Jews...
...surprising success of Poland's Gdynia Shipyard Group was featured in the July 16, 2001, issue of TIME Global Business. The group, which owned the yard where Lech Walesa led his worker's revolt, had shed its communist legacy to adopt market-economy practices such as product specialization and round-the-clock shifts. Now scandal at a competing shipyard may threaten Gdynia's success. The Stocznia Szczecinska shipyard, Poland's second largest shipbuilder, was forced in June to declare bankruptcy. Six of the company's former executives were arrested and charged with criminal mismanagement and fraud that...
...grew up in communist Poland, where the internal-security bureau had virtually no restrictions on investigating individuals or groups that were antigovernment. Is this the sort of country we want to live in? PAWEL BIEGUNSKI Naperville...
...assembled them in a free, outdoor exhibition entitled "Earth from the Air: A Photographic Portrait of Our Planet." On display till late September in the east garden of London's Natural History Museum, the exhibition will travel around Britain. With duplicate prints, it is also running in France, Poland, Sweden and Germany and is due shortly in Norway, Russia, Hungary and Lebanon. But Arthus-Bertrand's work is about much more than pretty pictures. The Parisbased photographer has assigned himself "the toughest project" - the open-ended task of recording the earth's environment as a benchmark for the future...