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...market for passengers to competition. Technology is also starting to make a difference. After years of planning and billions of euros of investment - E.U. governments paid out €40 billion in subsidies to their railroads in 2001 alone - a new network of high-speed train lines is finally taking shape in Western Europe. France has been the most aggressive to date: its tgv currently accounts for more than half of Europe's high-speed total. But Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands are also busy assembling a comprehensive high-speed network that will be fully in place...
...been granted licenses in France or Spain, even though both nations have implemented legislation that should technically allow for it. In Germany, where some private operators have been allowed, DB's ceo, former aerospace executive Hartmut Mehdorn, is cutting staff and spiffing up stations to knock the railroad into shape before a planned public offering in 2005. He has also bulked up the company's international-freight operations with the acquisition of former state-owned firms in Denmark and the Netherlands. Some worry that DB is assembling a dominant position in Europe's freight market that will enable...
...major parties and ethnic groups say they are committed to a united Iraq. The nightmare of Saddam's one-party state has made all Iraqis skeptical about the concentration of power. Having been joined for so long in their suffering, Iraqis have common ground with which to shape their future...
...should have learned to stay away from poetry). But Rowling does so much right that it's churlish to dwell on her minor missteps. (O.K., one more: Dobby still talks like Jar Jar Binks.) She has shed the clumsy devices--the impostors and the secret identities--that marred the shape of some of the earlier books. Her prose, always a serviceable, unshowy instrument, is stronger and more confident, and she has become a virtuoso plotter, a master at snappy pacing, able to stun and surprise at will...
...music, head to Palmer Vineyards along Sound Avenue, where the owners offer a full calendar of social events throughout the summer and fall. Bob and Lorraine Palmer's place is also a historic gem. A ramshackle 18th century farmhouse came with the property. Even though it was in dire shape, the Palmers couldn't bear to tear it down. Instead, Lorraine renovated the house with period furniture and detailing, right down to the pineapple-print wallpaper. One of the biggest events of the year is the spring Yard Sale Weekend, when the Palmers sell their excess wine at half price...