Selected international exhibitions.
AUSTRIA GRAZ Kunsthaus Pedro Cabrita Reis to May 18 VIENNA Kunsthalle Paloma Varga Weisz Mar 26-May 18 BELGIUM ANTWERP Extra City Mimetisme to Mar 30 MuHKA Sunthal Family to May 4 CHINA BEIJING Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Lawrence Weiner to May 30 ...

Aircraft News - Asia / Pacific.
Mar 10, 2008 AVIC Commercial Aircraft China is making final preparations for the launch of its "jumbo aircraft" manufacturing company, which is scheduled to begin operations in Shanghai this month. China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council will be the controlling...

An Interreligious Reflection on Conversion: From Controversy to a Shared Code of Conduct.
A three-year project commenced in May 2006 by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the World Council of Churches' program on interreligious dialogue and cooperation now includes evangelical and Pentecostal representatives. The dialogue, called An Interreligious Reflection on Conversion: From Controversy to a Shared Code of Conduct, was...

Spread of nonnative fish mirrors human commerce.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The percentage of foreign fish in rivers is strongly linked to nearby economic activity, according to a new study of 1,055 river basins worldwide. Nonnative plants and animals can outcompete local species and damage ecosystems, sometimes to the point of collapse. Freshwater fish can't readily...

French appeals court reverses judgment for damages awarded against French railway system for transporting family toward death camps.
European Green Party lawmaker Alain Lipietz, his sister, Helene, and other family members sued on behalf of four of their relatives taken in railway cattle cars to a Nazi transit camp at Drancy near Paris in May 1944. Drancy was a transfer point for Jews...

Imation and Hi-Stor Technologies Announce Global Business Development Agreement.
Companies Partner to Provide Customers With 'StorSentry' Real-Time Storage Systems Monitoring to Ensure Business Continuity OAKDALE, Minn. and TOULOUSE, France, Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Imation Corp , a worldwide leader in removable data storage, and Hi-Stor Technologies, a leading storage system consulting and software development company, today...

Soitec Appoints Paul Boudre to the Newly Created Position of Executive Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Customer Support.
Former KLA-Tencor Executive Chartered With Bolstering Company's Business and Growth Strategy BERNIN, France, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Soitec (Euronext Paris), the world's leading manufacturer of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and other engineered substrates, today announced it has appointed former KLA-Tencor executive, Paul Boudre, to the newly created post...

European Capital Invests euro 12.5 Million in Biscuits Poult.
PARIS, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- European Capital S.A. SICAR announced today it has invested euro 12.5 million ($16.2 million) in the mezzanine and second lien facilities of Biscuits Poult, the number one French private label manufacturer of sweet biscuits. Senior and mezzanine facilities were arranged by BNP Paribas in...

Airbus A380 touches down at Delhi airport.
NEW DELHI: GMR Delhi International Airport (P) Limited (DIAL) hosted the Airbus A380 this morning. History of sorts was created when the world's largest passenger aircraft, touched down at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at 1050 hrs this morning. This was soon after the dream aircraft had taken a...

A hot-air plane.
For all the attention that the Airbus A380 got on its demo flight to Mumbai and Delhi this week, the aircraft essentially is about as revolutionary as the latest Nike shoe. Commercial aviation has in the past provided great opportunity for aircraft designers. Radical ideas that began in aerospace...