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The Blue Banana.(expanding Europe's economic heartland)
In the beginning, there was the blue banana. First glimpsed by cosmonauts, then photographed by satellites, it's a curve of light across the night-shadowed Old World that stretches from Manchester, England, down through the Rhineland to Milan and the industrial heartland of northern Italy.
This is the economic spine of Europe, limned from space like a blue- glowing X-ray, a megalopolis seven centuries in the making. Here is the greatest concentration of big cities on the globe, the greatest production capacity per square kilometer, the densest commercial traffic. French journalists dubbed it "la banane bleu" in 1989, the uber-region around which an emerging ...
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