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Developing Berlin without destroying its sometimes still subversive culture is a difficult balancing act. The city doesn't have set nightlife hours, so bars and clubs can open and close their doors whenever they like. That means Saturday nights usually start around midnight and at some of the best-known clubs - such as Berghain, which Britain's DJ Mag this year named as the world's best club - keep going until the following afternoon. There's always a risk that gentrification will spoil the vibe. One of the biggest haunts in the early 1990s was Tresor, a subterranean space near...
...China has caught on to something that eludes most governments and companies in the West. Chinese state-owned and private enterprises believe African consumers could be the great untapped gold mine. Beijing's engagement with African leaders and governments is increasingly about ensuring that Chinese firms are best placed to sell their products when Africans start buying. (Read "Africa: Open for Business...
...previous paragraph made your head hurt, don't be discouraged. Nobody fully understands global monetary arrangements; the best that experts in the field seem to be able to do is worry vaguely. So what are the rest of us to do other than worry vaguely? Think twice about traveling to Europe, maybe, because it's really expensive. Hope a somewhat weaker dollar will help revive this country's beaten-down manufacturing sector - as seems to be happening - but also hope a dollar slide doesn't turn into a collapse. And put at least some of your money into investments (foreign...
...baseball pose has a balletic grace at odds with the savage power that the best pound-for-pound professional boxer on earth exhibits in the ring. "Best pound-for-pound" is the mantra intoned with every story about Pacquiao. It sounds strange because he has never been bound by the laws of physics. In the past eight years, he has risen through six weight divisions to win just as many world championships. At the stadium, his promoters have arranged for the Filipino to make official his plan to fight Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto for a seventh title, the welterweight...
...best sporting comebacks of all time...