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...dream of a city so pure and precise that the creator actually left people out of it. The pictures at the overstuffed, overcrowded Uffizi in Florence may be better, but at the Palazzo Ducal you move at your own pace or relax on one of the centuries-old marble window seats and actually get to know the images. Like all meaningful brushes with history, visiting the Palazzo Ducale plays constantly with your sense of time. Look at Ideal City or peer down the seemingly endless spiral staircase in one of the towers, and you feel the chasm between past...
...suburb, even if the exterior design fails to excite. TIME's backseat test passenger--all 6 ft. 8 in. of him--hadn't had that much room in a car since he was 10 years younger and a foot shorter. And there's an optional rear roof window, adding to the roomy, open feeling. You can even raise the car's height to suit your driving style--sport or comfort--although the difference wasn't all that notable...
...comparison with the crises facing Russia, such as growing authoritarianism and Chechnya. "I hate Lenin," says human-rights activist Lev Ponomarev. "But this latest idiocy doesn't interest me. The state is rebuilding its repressive machinery, and we are discussing Lenin's body." Yet the debate also is a window on changing attitudes among the ruling élite. Since Putin came to power, a new ideology has been taking shape that blends imperial nostalgia with the occasional careful nod to the Soviet Union's greatness under Stalin. These days the Kremlin honor guard wears 1812-era uniforms, and attending Orthodox...
...many ways, Mercedes' troubles provide a window into Germany's own problems as the nation grapples with slow growth, high unemployment and a weakening role in a rapidly changing world. The prosperity of both company and country has been built on engineering excellence and high-quality manufacturing. Mercedes stumbled, as Germany is stumbling, because of external pressures: in today's fiercely competitive global marketplace, there's little margin for error, especially for high-cost producers. With auto manufacturers worldwide racing to produce ever better cars ever more cheaply, Mercedes slipped because it became too complacent about its technological prowess, took...
...memories I can retrieve of nursery school and kindergarten are of afternoon naps after milk (which I didn't like) and cookies (which I did), curled up on a blanket on the floor of a classroom, often in a patch of sunlight coming through a window. It was so easy then to nap and wake up refreshed. I've had to relearn that process in my 60s--without the cookies...