German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder smiles at the world-wide-web booth
of the German government "www.bundesregierung.de" during his opening
tour at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover March 13, 2002. The world's
largest technology and communications fair opened on Wednesday in the
northern German city of Hanover amid industry hopes that it could spark
a recovery in a sector hard hit by an economic slump. Hundreds of
thousands of visitors will descend on the seven-day CeBIT 2002 trade
show to view and test innovations in the software, online commerce, IT
engineering and other voice, vision and data systems. REUTERS/Christian
Charisius REUTERS

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