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Consider the LCDs on our watches, cell phones, PDAs, laptops and, increasingly, TVs. Liquid crystals were discovered in 1888 by Friedrich Reinitzer, an Austrian botanist, and named a year later by Otto Lehman, a German physicist. Since then, they have taken a leisurely route to our homes. The first prototype display emerged from RCA's Sarnoff Research Center in 1968. Two years later, Optel began producing the first watches with an LCD. I first got a computer with an LCD (an Apple Portable) 15 years ago. The road from discovery to mass market took about 116 years...
...Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican's conservative theologian, warned that admitting Muslim Turkey to the E.U. would threaten the Continent's "cultural richness." French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin pointedly asked in the Wall Street Journal: "Do we want the river of Islam to enter the riverbed of secularism?" Austrian E.U. Commissioner for Agriculture Franz Fischler opined that Turkey was culturally "oriental," geographically "Asian" and that accession would open "a geostrategic Pandora's box." Frits Bolkestein, the Dutch E.U. Commissioner for the Internal Market, said that admitting Turkey could mean that the historic defeat of Ottoman armies at the gates...
...Windmühlgasse, just behind the busy Mariahilferstrasse, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records - split between classical, jazz and pop - as well as some 40,000 78s. The store once sold for $3,000 a rare shellac of Austrian violinist Marie Roeger-Soldat (born in 1863) playing Mozart, but most of the vinyl costs between $7 and $120. Tel: (43-1) 586 2133. TOKYO The city is in the grip of a vinyl revival, so you'll easily satisfy your wax cravings here. Head to Udagawa-cho, a five...
Claim to fame: As head of communications and a fifth-generation Swarovski, Nadja, 34, embodies the freshly glamorous image of the family-run Austrian crystal business...
...Jindabyne, director Shortland was handed their CD by music supervisor Norman Parkhill, and the sound chimed with her vision. "Do you know that Icelandic band Mumm?" Shortland says. "We were listening to them as well, and Bj?rk, and Goldfrapp, so there's a lot of sampling of that Austrian mountain music...