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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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Bishop: Church Must Evangelize Germans
Sat, 01/01/2011 - 19:01 —
Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich said the Church must again actively spread the Christian faith and bring back those who left in the wake of widespread sexual abuses by Church institutions.
"A new evangelization is our mission of the coming age," the archbishop said in his traditional New Year's night sermon Friday in Munich's famous Liebfrauendom. "The Church does not want a society that avoids mentioning the word of God altogether."
He said he senses a deep sense of insecurity among many people, not just Church goers but society in general, adding he was disturbed by the growing number of people deciding to leave the Church.
Marx decribed 2010 as a very difficult year for the Church in Germany and stressed the need for dealing with sexual abuse at Church institutions in the future as well.
"We have to face the truth, but must alse reject generalizations, and that means the Catholic Church must do its homework," he said. Though the Church had to face up to its responsibility, Marx said German society as a whole needed to be aware of the suffering of children.
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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.
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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
