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Heag Mobilo, a public-transportation company in Darmstadt, financed its purchases of new street cars through a similar arrangement. The city of Stuttgart leased and rented back its drinking-water system. Bottrop, a city in the Ruhr industrial region, financed a sewage-treatment plant in the same fashion, and Ulm, a southern German city, did such a deal to pay for construction of a refuse incinerator...
...galaxy, by assessing the strength of neutral atomic hydrogen gas, a widespread component of the Milky Way. Pohl created his map using a kinetic model of the galaxy's gas flow, which was developed by Peter Engelmeier of the University of Zurich and Nicolai Bissantz of Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, based on infrared data collected by a NASA satellite. Unlike visible light, infrared light penetrates dust clouds, so it provided Engelmeier and Bissantz with more precise measurements, in turn allowing Pohl to produce a more accurate, if not perfect, map. "Our method works over much of the Milky...
...time to be a member of the global middle class, Lawrence H. Summers writes in his debut column for the Financial Times today. The former Harvard president says that “ordinary, middle-class workers and their employers—whether they live in the American midwest, the Ruhr valley, Latin America or eastern Europe—are left out” of the gains generated by globalization...
...said the Americans can't behave like European fans. A large contingent filled a corner of a terrific stadium at Gelsenkirchen, a Ruhr valley town about 60 miles northeast of Cologne, at the end of a hot sunny day. They were drinking hard; they were dressed to the hilt in U.S. national team shirts (and the inevitable baseball hats); there were Elvis impersonators and even some moron in an Uncle Sam outfit. We were rolling. "It's going to be like a snowball, like Lance Armstrong winning the Tour," asserted Christian Kantlehner, 23, from Rutland, Vermont, anticipating...
...enter into joint ventures with foreign countries, raise international capital and invite bids for construction projects. If all went well, Shanghai, already responsible for one-sixth of China's foreign-exchange earnings and one-eighth of its industrial production, would emerge as a sort of hybrid Wall Street and Ruhr Valley...