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...grab some exercise between meetings. There's one option that lets you work out without working up a lather. Bluetrail, a 1.6-km-long exercise path starting in Bürkliplatz in the Swiss city's business district, was designed to get everyone moving, even men in suits. The trail's blue panels display gentle Tai Chi and qigong-like exercises. Communications agency owner David Güggenbuhl, who worked with Chinese doctors to develop Bluetrail, says, "One requirement was that these exercises could be done in a suit and tie without looking ridiculous." Certainly, nobody snickers when local architect...
...Trail Goes Cold With a series of high-profile acquisitions over the past two years, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has become the best-known Icelander in Britain after singer Björk. Through privately held retail and real estate company Baugur, Johannesson, 37, has snapped up the famous London toy store Hamleys, fashion chains including Karen Millen and Oasis, jeweler Goldsmiths and, last year, the Big Food Group (which owns a supermarket chain called, handily, Iceland). But now, just as he's on the verge of his biggest deal to date, a $1.7 billion takeover of Somerfield, Britain's fifth largest...
...Whiting, Iowa, ground has been set aside while a decision is awaited about whether to charge people who take land for utilities. "There will be new houses on that land no matter what," promises Mayor Nancy Brenden. In Chugwater--aptly named, considering its place on the long, dry Oregon Trail traveled by early settlers--the first taker has just signed up. "We have all this new energy in town," says Mayor Krista West. "People are excited...
...trace his roots back to Switzerland and Germany in the early 1500s. But Kerchner, 60, says he will not rest until he finds a German ancestral village where he can sit down someday and have a beer--hopefully with a local member of his clan. Having exhausted the paper trail, he says, "my only hope left is DNA testing...
Bush's dilemma is complicated by the fact that conservative groups want the President to appoint somebody who has a clear conservative track record, which means the kind of paper trail that will give liberals plenty to go after. "The lesson learned is not to go with people whose history isn't verifiable. You could end up with a shocker that you have to live with for the next 20 years," says Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for the conservative Liberty Legal Institute. Shackelford likes long-serving federal-district-court judges such as Emilio Garza of San Antonio, Texas...