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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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Japan Beats Germany in Women's Soccer
Sat, 07/09/2011 - 20:16 —
Japan scored one of the biggest upsets in the history of women’s soccer Saturday, defeating the two-time defending champion Germany, 1-0, in overtime of the World Cup quarterfinals.
The setback thwarts German expectations of winning a third title on home soil.
In the 108th minute, the substitute forward Karina Maruyama took a diagonal pass from midfielder Homare Sawa and put an acutely angled shot past German goalkeeper Nadine Angerer.
It was the latest goal ever scored in a Women’s World Cup match and one of the most stunningly decisive.Germany’s players and 26,067 fans were left in disbelief in Wolfsburg, Germany, as Japan advanced to Wednesday’s semifinals to face Sweden or Australia, who will meet in a quarterfinal Sunday.
Germany had not lost in 15 World Cup matches since a 3-2 defeat to the Americans in the 1999 quarterfinals. Saturday’s defeat brought a deflating end to the celebrative atmosphere that had accompanied the tournament around Germany the past two weeks.
Minutes into the match, things began to go wrong for Germany. Midfielder Kim Kulig wrenched a knee, which forced her out of the match and left the champions curiously docile.
Perhaps Germany was tired or feeling enormous pressure to succeed with an entire nation paying close attention.Or perhaps Coach Silvia Neid made a tactical mistake, using a pair of defensive substitutions while leaving the attack-minded winger Fatmire Bajramaj and forward Birgit Prinz, the Women’s World Cup’s career-leading scorer with 14 goals, on the bench.
WAS IST LOS?
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
