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...wireless Internet connection and a free program called Britannica Traveler (downloadable at palm.net) Surfers already have access to the encyclopedia at Britannica.com Now, with the pocket-size Palm VII, they'll be able to browse all 32 of Britannica's volumes wherever they go, from Aachen to Zwickau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: May 1, 2000 | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...more familiar 1851 score. Both are wonderful in these performances, even if the 1851 version has sacrificed a little boldness for greater texture. The set also includes a dazzlingly virtuosic performance of Schumann's Konzertstuck for Four Horns and Orchestra (1849) and two "almost" symphonies: the promising, never completed "Zwickau" Symphony, composed in his youth, and the Overture, Scherzo and Finale (1841), with its passages of surprising delicacy and elfin fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schumann Restored | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...revolt against Rome spread; in town after town, priests and town councils removed statues from the churches and abandoned the Mass. New reformers, many of them far more radical than Luther, appeared on the scene-Ulrich Zwingli in Zurich, the ex-Dominican Martin Bucer in Strasbourg, Thomas Munzer in Zwickau. More important, princes, dukes and electors defied the condemnation of Luther by giving covert support to the new movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protestants: Obedient Rebel | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Raised in what is now the East German city of Zwickau (his mother still lives there, but they are allowed to exchange visits), Frobe was a violin prodigy and opera-set designer before he turned actor. During World War II, the man now cast as a German general never rose past the rank of corporal. He is convinced, however, that his empathic powers are limitless, for no role has eluded him yet. "I cannot stand on my hands," he says, "but I feel certain that if I were acting a part which required me to stand on my hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man You Hate to Love | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...Kremlin's new plans, which also include closing down unprofitable coal mines at Zwickau, cutting output of machine tools that Russia now produces, curtailing expansion of the ill-placed Stalinstadt steel works, building a merchant marine for Red China, and collectivizing more potato lands, spell harsh new shutdowns and uprootings for the East Germans. Nonetheless, it is a complete reversal of Russia's postwar practice of ripping up railroads, carrying off generators and machine tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST GERMANY: Most Useful Satellite | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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