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...says Alfonso Vegara, president of the International Society of City and Regional Planners. He cites Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, as an example; the city has one of the largest historic centers in Europe, but the area has declined as pedestrian traffic has dropped and small businesses have shut down. Valencia is trying to bounce back with new cultural attractions (Time, May 26), but Madrid would prefer to avoid the whole cycle. That's not easily done. According to Vegara's research, while spending in the Madrid area increased more than 25% from 1995 to 1998, nearly...
...biggest manufacturers: Infineon, Geneva-based STMicroelectronics, the Dutch giant Philips, and others outside Europe like Motorola and Mitsubishi. Worldwide semiconductor sales peaked at $204 billion in 2000, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS), and slipped to $141 billion last year. More than 100 chip manufacturing plants, called FABS, shut down as global demand evaporated. It has been a long cold lonely winter, but finally there are signs that the semiconductor sector may be warming up again soon. Though wary of uncertainties, companies are cautiously talking about a recovery. "The companies that are big enough and investing in research...
Primo particularly targets former workers from another factory, Tainan, which had been shut down immediately after a union formed there. One worker who was initially hired without Primo knowing that she had worked at Tainan was fired before starting work after a further investigation of her file; management, she told the WRC, admitted that she had been fired because of her membership in the Tainan union. Primo management told similar things to other workers who it refused to hire despite their qualifications...
Concordia gained international attention for last year’s September 9 riot, which shut down the scheduled speech of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the riot, a motley assortment of activists managed to occupy parts of the downtown campus, break windows and viciously taunt the speech’s ticket-holders. An elderly Holocaust survivor was reportedly spit on, while an Israeli flag was burned. As police barricades separated pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli students, I walked by with a first-year art history class on a museum trip. Having already survived one year at the cantankerous...
...Tuwaitha shut down on April 14th and 15th, center workers say. U.S. marines had been in the area since about the 4th, but, the U.S. military maintains, had neither the manpower nor the time to secure the site. In any case, there were no contingency plans to do so, a senior U.S. official told TIME. Planners had concluded that "there was little there in the way of militarily significant radiation sources" in the research center, the official said. "Looting was not expected and you didn't think that looters would go into storage areas with low-level radiation," he added...