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...Germany, and environmental services - like installing solar panels and purifying waste water - account for 3% of all jobs in the region. "We've got four times as many jobs in the solar-power sector than anywhere else in Germany," beams Salomon, who's a member of the Greens. Architect Rolf Disch is one of the businessmen who has benefited from that environmental focus. He ducks under a low-hanging beam as he steps out onto the roof of the solar-powered office and apartment building in the Vauban neighborhood, which he designed and which opened last week. Below him stretch...
Turning things upside down is de rigueur for the Dutch duo Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren, of Viktor & Rolf, who showed their collection backward and upside down, literally. There was a fake runway on the ceiling, and the models came out with dresses pinned hemside up. Even though the clothes, back in the showroom at least, are quite classical and romantic, the message is clear: time for something...
...VAGABLOGGING.NET This is a website created by Rolf Potts, a renowned shoestring traveler whose 2002 book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, is a crucial reference for any budget wanderer. He started his companion blog the same year and provides almost daily updates from wherever he is (at press time, it was Paris...
...cameras usually so beloved of travel bloggers and opts instead for an unwieldy, large-format Toyo AX camera with a Schneider lens. He also draws intricate maps in watercolors and acrylics to guide readers through Mexican deserts, the Iberian peninsula, and beyond. VAGABLOGGING.NET This is a website created by Rolf Potts, a renowned shoestring Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every...
...with turning around the ailing Chrysler business in the U.S., will be hoping he can work a similar feat with Daimler. A new, streamlined strategy would help. "Instead of continuing to meddle with too many products in too many markets, they need to concentrate on their core business," says Rolf Drees, an analyst with asset management company Union Investment. "The new CEO may achieve just that." Though Schrempp is on his way out, DaimlerChrysler's numbers are looking up. The group's net profits were up 28% to 3737 million last quarter, while sales grew 4% to 338.4 billion...