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...skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden-Württemberg, but was rejected because she insisted on keeping her head veiled in the classroom. She sued the Stuttgart school authority, and after years of legal wrangling won her case in September, when the Constitutional Court ruled that Muslim teachers have the right to wear head scarves in school. "I felt discriminated against for years," says the Afghanistan-born Ludin, who now works in a private Islamic school...
...July 2002, and which therefore fall within its jurisdiction. Home Again U.K. Shevaun Pennington, 12, was found safe after spending five days on the run with a 31-year-old former U.S. Marine who befriended her through an Internet chat room. The pair traveled to France and then to Stuttgart, Germany, from where Pennington flew home...
...caretaker was dropped. The scandal resurfaced last November, as more than a score of former Casa Pia children came forward to publicly accuse Ritto of sexual abuse. The weekly magazine Visão reported in March that in 1970 Ritto was removed from his post as consul in Stuttgart after German authorities complained to Lisbon about his involvement with an under-age boy in a public park. Ritto denied the allegation. At this point, no one in charge denies that horrible things happened to Casa Pia kids. Several senior staff have been sacked in recent months, but the new director...
...million vehicles since 2002. The transplants alone are adding enough capacity for an additional 1 million vehicles. Hyundai is building a plant in Montgomery, Ala.--the first Korean auto-assembly factory in the U.S.--to make Sonata sedans and Santa Fe SUVs. Mercedes-Benz (owned by DaimlerChrysler, based in Stuttgart, Germany) is doubling capacity at its SUV facility in Tuscaloosa, Ala. And BMW recently expanded its plant in Spartanburg, S.C., where lines run overtime to produce Z4 roadsters and X5 SUVs. Detroit's automakers are by no means sitting still, as we'll see, but the additional transplant capacity...
...arts bodies to become more self-sufficient - even to embrace once-taboo methods like privatization and corporate sponsorship - and to recognize that commercial viability is as critical to survival as artistic merit. "Culture is business," says Werner Heinrichs, dean at the State University for Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. "Nobody should pretend that these two things are not linked." That lesson is being learned at the Staatsoper on Unter den Linden in Berlin. The city of Berlin faces debts of more than €45 billion, so the opera house and other premier cultural venues are feeling the pinch. Like...