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...northern Japan, while floods destroyed at least 16 buildings and 10 bridges. Flights were also disrupted MEANWHILE A Bum Seer? In further proof of the untapped potential of the human mind, a blind German psychic says that he can read people's futures by feeling their naked buttocks. Ulf Buck, 39, from Meldorf, near Hamburg, said backsides have lines on them that can be read just like the lines on the palm of a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/14/2002 | See Source »

...containing a set of mini-comix selected by the Slovenian editors of "Stripburger," which will include works from Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Italy, and France. The Bries publishing company will put out "Louis Armstrong," by Philip Paquet, a Belgian, about Satchmo's early days, and "Tango with Death," by Ulf K., a German, made up of short stories involving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix Leaves | 8/24/2001 | See Source »

...addition, these employees can be transferred to an outplacement firm called Proffice that provides each worker with an analysis of his skills and helps organize retraining if necessary. Dismissed employees joining the plan have to show up every morning just as if they still had jobs. Ulf Westergren, director of production support at Ericsson, says that among other benefits the outplacement system helps dispel the depression that often comes with job loss. Masifi has decided he wants to be a bus driver, which pays roughly the same salary as his Ericsson job. So he will take a course, arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...There was one disappointing thing about getting tenure," Doyle said. "My colleague, Ulf Fuerloins, was passed up for tenure...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Physics Dept. Tenures Doyle | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...predominantly black city, hip hop and soul music, when played over the radio, can have the effect of taking the difficulties of urban life and depersonalizing them, making them a communal problem rather than an individual failure. As Ulf Hannerz points out in his 1969 ethnography of Washington, D.C., Soulside, "the ghetto cultural apparatus also assures the members of the audience that their personal troubles are only reflections of the public issues of the community...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Looking for Community on the FM Dial | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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