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...Nato’s Joint Support and Enabling Command, an alliance command centre in the southern German city of Ulm, is drawing up plans for how Nato military forces would deploy around Europe and be sustained and...
...The Theater Ulm circulated its own mock parliamentary request online (“How many AfD members in the state of Baden-Württemberg have criminal records?”...
...Until a decade earlier, the world’s tallest building had been neogothic Ulm Minster, built in 1890, with a tapering spire that anticipated the skyscraper boom....
...“St John the Baptist”, in heroic contrapposto pose of the Apollo Belvedere, stands before a symbolic stream beneath tempestuous clouds....
...Rams had worked with the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, established in 1953 as the successor school to the Bauhaus. The iPhone is the ultimate modernist design: slim, black, smooth, functional....
...It’s not that writers and critics haven’t won the RIBA’s Gold Medal before – John Summerson, Nikolaus Pevsner and Colin Rowe have all received it, but it hasn’t happened for almost two decades....
...John Pasche’s Rolling Stones logo is surprisingly missing. And finally there are Pauline Boty’s beautiful, under-regarded paintings....
...Daimler, BMW’s arch rival, pioneered one-way car sharing in 2008 in Ulm, Germany, with its car2go service, which offers its Smart minicars for short-term hire....
...Daimler’s Smart car brand is piloting a car club-like scheme in Ulm, Germany and Austin, Texas, under which users can pick up a car on the street and drive or drop it off as needed, and pay for the service...
...It says demand for the cars has been brisk in Ulm, Germany, and Austin, Texas, the two cities where its “car2go” pilot is taking place....
...In Ulm, the company says the scheme has clocked about 250,000 rentals since its launch last year....
...Antje Tiefenbach, a 25-year-old engineering student in Ulm, Germany, normally drives a Fiat Punto she bought four years ago for €8,000 ($10,200)....
...It made £836,000 when sold as part of the celebrated collection of Major John Abbey in 1989 but could fetch more than £3m in July....
...John Updike once said the really important question about literary biography is whether we need it at all. You could say the same about biographies of philosophers....
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