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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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Austria Honors Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
Thu, 11/27/2008 - 10:22 — Walter
As her last act as Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik has bestowed the "Great Award for Service to the Republic of Austria" on German-born Austrian violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Acting on behalf of President Heinz Fischer Plassnik presented Mutter, who became an Austrian citizen 10 years ago, with the award Wednesday.
Plassnik cited Mutter’s contribution as a foreign ministry ambassador to the initiative "World without Mines" and her promotion of musical education as instances of such service. Mutter has performed two benefit concerts for the initiative.
Mutter said at the ceremony that the award was "an incentive to accomplish even more in the rest of my life" and that music was "a language that unites us all, relaxes us and enables us to change many things."
Photo: Mutter with multi-talented husband, Berlin-born Andre Previn.
Plassnik said that the ceremony was her last official act as foreign minister. She will leave office after the next Austrian government is sworn in on December 2 but will take up her mandate as a member of the federal parliament.
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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
