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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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Prosit America - We Are Coming!
Tue, 08/16/2011 - 08:22 —
Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg - once touted as a future German chancellor - is moving to the United States with wife Stephanie and their two daughters.
The newspaper Bild Tuesday quoted Guttenberg's wife, Stephanie, confirming speculation that the couple and their two daughters were planning to move to the US east coast.
According to the report, the family will move in the coming weeks but there are no plans to leave Germany forever. "We are not emigrating, we remain wholeheartedly German and we will be coming back, that much is clear," said the wife of the former minister.
Career plans still unclear
However, she gave no indication of what career path the 39-year-old, who also served as an economy minister, intended to pursue. An earlier report by the German broadcaster ARD, in July, had suggested that he planned to write a book and give lectures.
There had been speculation ever since Guttenberg stepped down in March that he might consider emigrating to the US, with broadcaster ARD reporting that he had bought a home in Connecticut. (Photo: Guttenberg in Times Square)
Before it came to light that he had plagiarized tracts of his doctoral thesis, Guttenberg had been rated in polls as Germany's most popular politician. He had been touted as a possible successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Guttenberg is a descendant of, notably, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and Aloys II, Prince of Liechtenstein, according to Wikipedia.
His wife Stephanie is a descendant of Otto von Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, who in 1871 founded modern Germany following the Franco-Prussian war.
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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
