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...pool. A thousand people might be hyperbole (a hundred is more like it), but so what? With wood paneling, high ceilings, statues of frolicking nymphs and a rotenburo, or outdoor bath, this steamy classic offers bathers the chance to par-boil in elegance or cool off under the night sky...
...most memorable site in town is still unfinished - and always will be. Santa Maria dello Spasimo, a 16th century church whose nave was never completed, has been reopened to visitors, who can savor a unique moment of reflection by looking up through the incomplete roof to the sky above. Shopping ranges from casbah-like markets, such as the Vucciria off Via Roma, to an array of elegant European designer shops between Via Libert? and Via R. Settimo. Be aware that the traditional 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. siesta is in effect for most stores. If the hustle for clothes...
...when he heard an explosion. Ten seconds later, he says, came something more. "There was a huge bang, and I felt I was lifted up. There was just light and sound--it was like someone knocked me out." Fielder remembers hearing screams and noticing that he could see the sky: the roof of the club had been blown off. Picking himself up from the rubble, he tried to stumble out of the bar, only to fall into a mess of blackened dead bodies...
...traditional filigree theme, a tank substitutes for an octagon, or a minaret is swapped for a gun barrel?those where the war has just begun to impose itself on an otherwise eternal field. The changed landscape of these carpets echoes the changed landscape of the weavers' own countryside: a sky that had seen so few commercial jetliners becomes filled with bombers and missiles. In some of the later rugs, war machinery overwhelms the entire weave. All the traditional imagery has been obliterated, leaving two giant Kalashnikovs and a couple of helicopters squeezed between their stocks and barrels...
...weak even before the gigantic Airbus bills. Reutlinger left Sabena to take over Swissair's French airline operations in August 2000. Veteran Lufthansa executive Christoph Müller took over as Sabena CEO and immediately realized the danger. Within a month he outlined a drastic restructuring plan, dubbed Blue Sky. "You didn't need to be a rocket scientist" to know Sabena was in serious trouble, Müller says. "You just needed to read the balance sheet." The Airbus deal in particular saddled Sabena with impossible red ink. Müller points out that the Sabena order...