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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
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Nudist Hikers Win New Trail
Thu, 06/16/2011 - 10:46 —
A new hiking trail for nudists that opened last week near the town of Dankerode was hailed by Mayor Monika Rauhut as "the latest attraction here in beautiful Wuppertal".
In Germany, signs placed around the nude trail area warn: "If you don't want to run into any naked people, stop right here!"
The first year that the German trail, played up initially as a "paradise" for nude hikers, was up and running, there were no legal problems. But there have been some red faces.
The brain behind the endeavour is a nearby campground owner who had hoped the novel trail would bring him more paying guests, but instead he found himself telling the nudists to give his campsite "a wide berth".
German nude-hiking aficionado Horst K. said on the Nacktwandern website, which has provided information about the trail since it opened, that integrating the naturist trail and the family-oriented campsite proved more difficult.
"Yes, there were some problems. But we cleared those up, and now things are okay for both sides," Time magazine quoted Horst K. as saying.
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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
