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...most of the last half-century, Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, relied almost entirely on its harbor for its growth within the Rhineland, Europe's third strongest economic region after London and Paris. And as the city began to shift from strategic shipping hub to creative media center in the early 1990s, its chevron-shaped dockside led the way. Today, following over a decade of frenzied development, MedienHafen (Media Harbor) has become a hip center for great restaurants, swish bars and dimly lit lounges, many housed in outré structures designed...
...their perilous place in the media, too. As the prevalence of the iPod has increased, people have become ever-so dependent on their personal music-playing devices. The ability to carry one’s personal collection around, accessing old favorites and recently downloaded hits at the slight shift of a thumb, has replaced the frustration of waiting for your favorite radio station to play your song of choice...
...scene. “There are a lot of young Harvard alumni working in theater in New York. I think the thing that people maybe don’t know is that there are just so many of us working here,” Mangu-Ward says.For some, the shift from Harvard to the New York theater scene is easier than it is for others. Laurence O’Keefe ’91, a script and lyric writer who wrote the music and lyrics to “Legally Blonde” with his wife Nell D. Benjamin...
...rural So Paulo, managers found that even employees with a high school education could not interpret graphs or follow the manuals they needed to manufacture furniture. The company set aside a room on its shop floor to use as an impromptu classroom whenever a worker on a shift needs help. "It is common to see people who can't read or write or fill in forms," says Zanzini's human-resources director, Leandro Mangili. "They have finished secondary school, but they can't add without a calculator." The most recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
...Gonzales, who is scheduled to deliver crucial testimony on his role in the firings next Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats have stressed that even if Gonzales resigns, their investigation into the dismissal of the U.S. attorneys will continue. In that event, the investigation's focus would likely shift to the role of the White House in the firings, and Goodling's contacts with the office of former White House counsel Harriet Miers and of top political advisor Karl Rove might be crucially important...