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...wind must have been coming from the wrong direction," he says. "I was really close to the Wall and could see the Reichstag. But I couldn't hear the concert...
...With the long nuclear winter finally over, you might think that execs at Areva, the world's biggest nuclear-energy company, are strutting just now. But you'd be wrong. The state-owned French giant is scrambling not just to rectify a series of snafus at a high-profile reactor it's building in Finland, but also to raise more than $10 billion in new capital and weather the loss of an important industrial partner. All that has raised concerns that CEO Anne Lauvergeon - who fused a disparate collection of firms into the first one-stop-shop nuclear conglomerate, winning...
...smartbooks and other mobile Internet devices but also keep them on the wide-open Google Web. That's why it announced the Chrome operating system last month. (I think the common wisdom - that this was a move aimed mainly at the king of operating systems, Microsoft - is flat-out wrong. Getting into mobile operating systems is a defensive move for Google, not an offensive one.) (Watch TIME's video about the Palm Pre vs. the iPhone...
Still, the Angels insist the club's reputation as a criminal organization is undeserved, pointing to its frequent charity work on behalf of children and veterans. A banner on the bottom of the Hells Angels website reads, "When we do right nobody remembers, when we do wrong nobody forgets." Yet many Hells Angels have clearly lived up to their lawless image - arrests and convictions for drug trafficking (especially meth), assault, weapons possession and even murder have trailed the group for decades. Most notoriously, Hells Angels allegedly plotted to kill rock legend Mick Jagger following the infamous 1969 riot at California...
Aquino was convinced that her presidency was divinely inspired, even as her political foes mocked her piety. "If the country needs me," she said, "God will spare me." And miracle of miracles, she proved God right and her critics wrong. She would be succeeded by a democratically elected general - the first to be at her side as Marcos threatened to mow down her supporters in the streets. She anointed him despite the opposition of her church. Indeed, Fidel Ramos would be the first Protestant to lead the overwhelmingly Catholic country. And he would give the islands a taste of stability...