The International Herald Tribune has been doing a series on mayors around the world and today's article deals with Berlin. Broke but dynamic, Berlin seeks new identity can be read at
www.iht.com/indexes/special/mayors/index.html.
Today's Hamburger Abendblatt reports on a young woman engineer who has revolutionized how to find unexploded bombs from World War II using digital technology. There are over 14,000 bombs still buried in Hamburg. It costs 20,000 to 25,000 euros to dig out and defuse a bomb, depending on how deep it is buried. The article in German can be read at
www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/05/02/428476.html.