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...Nowitzki may be the most unlikely star ever to lead his team to an NBA title. In Wurzburg, no hoops hotbed, he should have followed his father into team handball, the sport in which Jorg Nowitzki played for the West German national team. Or toiled in his family's housepainting business. But a member of West Germany's 1972 Olympic basketball team, Holger Geschwindner, discovered the gangly teen in Wurzburg and groomed his raw talent into the first-round draft pick of the Mavericks...
...Eurobarometer poll found that a third of the citizens in EU countries described themselves as “very racist” or “quite racist.” But racism does not explain why the extreme rightist groups most associated with race baiting, such as Austrian Jorg Haider’s Freedom Party and Frenchman Jean Marie Le Pen’s National Front, have seen their public support crumble. Meanwhile, center-right parties have maintained or increased their power...
...turning turbines and generating enough electricity to power 200,000 Australian homes. It may sound like science fiction, but the project is on track to get approved by the Australian government. If completed, the $800 million solar tower will be the tallest man-made structure in the world. INVENTOR Jorg Schlaich AVAILABILITY 2005 TO LEARN MORE www.enviromission.com.au
Although Le Pen was surely helped by his opponents’ shortcomings, his success was also symptomatic of the growing support for far-right parties which has developed over the past few years in Western Europe. Jorg Haider was the first hardliner to succeed at the polls, winning his Freedom Party a place in a center-right coalition government after his strong showing in the 2000 Austrian elections. Haider’s controversial policies—revolving largely around implacable opposition to further Turkish immigration and the potential repatriation of immigrants already within Austria—have served...
Raimund Abraham, the Forum's architect, was born in Lienz in the Austrian Alps but has lived and taught in the U.S. since 1964. No one would describe him as a man who compromises. To protest the coalition government at home that includes the far-right Freedom Party of Jorg Haider, he recently renounced his Austrian citizenship. At 68, he's one of those architects better known for theories and drawings than completed projects. The one-volume compilation of his works is called [Un]Built...