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...wisecracking, Cuban-cigar-smoking, martini-drinking former Marine Corps fighter pilot, Lutz is passionate about beauty and speed. He not only loves sports cars but also flies his own Czech L39C jet fighter and sometimes commutes to work in his own helicopter. Born to Swiss parents in Zurich, Lutz has always moved back and forth between Europe and the U.S. He smashed his uncle's Ford coupe into a wall at age eight and walked away from a helicopter accident in 1991. He started at GM in 1960, cruised through BMW, lodged at Ford and then landed at Lee Iacocca...
...zero temperatures to get the bills. By day's end, a small grocery on the city's main street had 4.50[Euro] in its till, though prices were still shown in German marks, the official currency since 1999. Kosovars are used to a variety of currencies: U.S. dollars, Swiss francs, Yugoslav dinars. Now there's the euro. Says shopkeeper Shukrane Shaqiri, warming her hands by a stove: "It's the same for us, as long as it's money...
...atmosphere is electric. The men are in jeans and sportswear, while most of the women wear scarves over their heads. With few exceptions, the audience is made up of North Africans in their mid-20s. On the podium, 39-year-old Swiss university professor Tariq Ramadan - whose grandfather founded Egypt's Islamic revival movement the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 - begins to speak. "Now more than ever we need to criticize some of our brothers," he tells the packed hall. "My dignity depends on saying, 'You're unjustified if you use the Koran to justify murder.'" The French establishment - with...
...hottest real estate in Switzerland right now might well be the country's estimated 261,418 bomb shelters. Ever since the cold war, the Swiss have been required either to have a bomb shelter in their homes or to pay roughly $900 for a place in a communal bunker. (The 1962 law states: "For every Swiss, a shelter.") Over the years, as fears over nuclear attacks faded, these shelters have morphed into storage closets, wine cellars, saunas, bars, bowling alleys and - at least in one case - a massive pizza oven...
...Swiss authorities are urging the country's 7.2 million residents to convert these spaces back into actual bomb shelters - complete with a 14-day supply of bottled water and canned food. And certainly, the design requirements of these structures should reassure anyone concerned about the threat of terrorism...