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...East Berlin. Catch it at the zoo, and look for the bomb-damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Church tower, left as a reminder of the horrors of war. After passing the House of World Cultures, known by locals as the Pregnant Oyster, the bus approaches the Reichstag. It sports a huge glass dome by British architect Norman Foster that sits over the plenary hall - from the viewing deck inside you can look down and see parliamentarians at work. Just behind the Reichstag, look carefully for the cobblestone line marking where the Wall once stood. Passing the Brandenburg Gate, you travel on Unter...
...former site of an army barracks on leafy Harding Road is home to the PS Caf?, tel: (65) 6479 3343. This elegant restaurant of glass and timber serves what co-owner Philip Chin calls "casual gourmet" dishes, the best of which may be the superbly executed, fall-off-the-bone duck rendang. For years, Chin and his partners aspired to establish a suburban offshoot of their trendy downtown venue, Project Shop Caf?: with its retro furniture and jazzy ambience, PS represents the ample fulfillment of that dream...
...feeling of a production shot on film. None of those attributes are inherent in film alone but are rather created by the person whose eye is at the viewfinder. Would we believe for a minute that Ansel Adams was sad the day he was able to stop lugging around glass plates in favor of film? William C. Simone Lebanon, Pennsylvania...
...Salaries start at $16.50 an hour, and the benefits at this German company are, well, positively European. In one of its factories along the Blue River, a row of mammoth 2400° furnaces spin the plant's secret recipe of sand, soda ash, borax and limestone into billions of billowy glass fibers, which will be cooled, packed and cut into battens of fiber-glass insulation. The workers running the furnaces are the last of a dying breed: people holding good jobs who never earned a high school diploma. Thirty years ago, the men came from as far away as the hills...
...life, but these days high school dropouts need not apply. Even a GED is not sufficient for a job here anymore. Take a tour of the factory floor, and the main reason is clear. Some workers--entry-level employees--stand at their stations and pluck irregular pieces of fiber glass from the line. It's mostly mindless labor, but the giant whirring belts and chomping insulation cutters are run by adjacent computer terminals called programmable-logic controllers. When the floor boss goes on a coffee break, it's the floor workers who must operate the controllers. In today's factories...