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Are the Boomers Are Heading for the Barn?
When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in thelabor force, the lowest level since December 1981.
WANDERLUST
Eurostar Eyes Frankfurt Link
Eurostar is to extend its high speed rail service to link Frankfurt and Cologne via the Channel Tunnel to London within the next five years, according to a British newspaper report on Monday.
GERMERICANA
Digging into German Culture in Pennsylvania
By Chris Sholley
During the past year, a group of Lebanon Valley College students poured over German documents at the Lebanon County Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of an advanced course in the language. They made interesting discoveries about the lives of German immigrants.
AKADEMIA
Learning and Teaching German
With the free German courses from Deutsche Welle, you can choose the learning style that suits you best: e-learning at the computer, with short videos, audio courses or podcasts, or with texts and worksheets you can print out. For DW's website, please click HERE
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Bayer Tests Drug Cure for Double Chins
Mon, 01/10/2011 - 10:58 —
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer said it was developing a drug to combat double chins that it says could generate $300 million a year in sales, reports The Local.
A patient's double chin, sometimes called a “waddle,” would be reduced through injections of the compound ATX-101, the online newspaper said.
The company plans to study the drug’s safety and effectiveness in two studies of the cosmetic medicine, it added.
Bayer has started phase 3 trials on 720 patients around Europe, according to a company statement released this week. “There is a huge demand for a safe, effective and approved injectable treatment for localized fat reduction,” Jean Paul Ortonne, a dermatologist who will carry out the trials in France, told The Local.
The drug to combat the curse of middle age would be given in the form of injections. It works by dissolving fat cells, known as adipocytes, while leaving surrounding tissue unaffected.
The firm believes the drug could earn €150 million to €250 million, not including even the key market of the United States, according to the story. It is hoping to have the drug licensed for sale in Europe, Asia and Latin America by 2014.
The Californian cosmetic medicine firm Kythera will be responsible for the marketing of the drug in the US, The Local said,
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KULTUR
Celebrating Gustav Klimt
Vienna's art trade will be marking the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth in style. A series of special events in 2012 will pay tribute to the artist, who was a leading light in the Vienna Secession movement and a pioneer of modernism.
DAS KINO
Portrait of Wally - The Movie
A documentary about Austrian painter Egon Schiele's famous portrait of his mistress "Wally" opens Friday, in New York's Quad Cinema III. It traces the legal and emotional drama surrounding the oil painting. The following review is by Chuck Bowen of Slant.
DER STAMMTISCH
Gertrude Stein's Strange Views
By Mark Weber
Scholars of the life of Gertrude Stein were recently startled to learn that in 1938 the prominent American writer Gertrude Stein had spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler.
FUSSBALL
