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EUROBLUES Cleaning Up Nature abhors a vacuum, and at the moment, markets are not very pleased with the people who make them either. Last week, Stockholm-based Electrolux, the world's largest appliance maker, announced it was eliminating 5,091 jobs worldwide, about 6% of its workforce. Stock markets, which often applaud such "restructuring" moves, instead were sour; one Swedish investment bank even put a rare "sell" recommendation on Electrolux stock. What's ailing the maker of Eurekas and WeedEaters? CEO Hans Straaberg blames heavy competition and certain "under-performing" areas, notably room air conditioners, for which labor and supply...
DIED. ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI, 84, whimsical patriarch of modern Italian design whose playful, highly stylized lamps, vacuum cleaners, ashtrays and other domestic objects helped establish Italy's postwar reputation as a design innovator; in Milan. Castiglioni created some 200 items, including the Arco lamp (shown), an arching alternative to a ceiling light, and the Mezzadro, a tractor seat stool...
...them," Assem recalls. "It wasn't all about beards and robes and prayer, but about logic." For him, the economics of Shari'a is its biggest selling point, but adds that you can't buy into the economic theory without accepting the caliphate as well. "Islam can fill the vacuum left by the collapse of socialism," he says. "But we also recognize that the caliphate can only be implemented if people want it." Assem believes Europeans will join the caliphate, but only once they see its advantages. And he admits that day is a long way off. - By STEVE ZWICK/Duisberg...
...third time was the charm for the Dekes of MIT, who replaced luck with planning, developing this “hack” for nearly two years. The device was constructed using various instruments donated by MIT laboratories, a vacuum motor, and Freon gas. All these ingredients were directed towards inflating a larger-than-life balloon emblazoned with the school’s initials and earmarked for the 1982 Harvard-Yale football game...
...Even as the dapper Swedish diplomat was beginning his meetings with Iraqi officials at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday morning, the vacuum cleaners were blasting into action on the third floor of the former Canal Hotel, now the UN headquarters in Iraq. So thick was the layer of dust, one inspections official told me, that the rodents who had taken up temporary residence in the offices left tracks. "It is quite eerie to walk through there," says the official. "It is like a time capsule. You can tell that the inspectors left in a hurry. There's a tool...