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MAKING WAVES Wireless isn't just for landlubbers. Now travelers in the Scandinavian region (which has long been in the forefront of wireless technology) can get wi-fi while crossing the Baltic Sea. Passengers on Silja ferries running between Helsinki, Stockholm and Tallinn, Estonia, can log on for free while seated near...
...happy to be back in civilization ... We ate dates, no vegetables, and there were no vitamins." SILJA STAEHLI, a Swiss woman who was released last week, along with 14 other hostages, after being held in the Sahara desert for five months by a group of Islamic fundamentalists...
...dates." SILJA STAEHELI, 19-year-old Swiss woman held hostage for six months by an Islamic radical group in the Sahara desert, explaining how she and 13 others survived...
...director in the history of the Cleveland Orchestra was announced in 1982, the reaction was nearly unanimous: Christoph von Who? The Berlin-born Dohnanyi, 53 -- grandson of the urbane composer Erno Dohnanyi, nephew of the martyred Nazi-era theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and husband of the glamorous dramatic soprano Anja Silja -- was nearly unknown in the U.S. Among the few who were aware of him, he was regarded as a workmanlike German kapellmeister with a suspicious fondness for 20th century music, and certainly an odd choice to command an orchestra whose past conductors had included such doughty maestros as Artur Rodzinski...
...seed money for the establishment of a fund which eventually--a year or two from now--will hopefully have money to give out," said Silja S. Kallenbach, director of the division of adult literacy at the mayor's Office of Jobs and Community Services...