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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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Berlin Sets Up Unit to Combat Neo-Nazism
Tue, 01/24/2012 - 19:12 — Walter
An agency tasked with advising how to combat neo-Nazis was set up in Berlin, two months after authorities exposed a violent anti-immigrant gang.
Family Affairs Minister Kristina Schroeder said Tuesday the information
and skill agency would be a one-stop source of advice to
municipalities seeking ways to check neo-Nazi recruiters.
She spoke after a day-long meeting in Berlin with church activists
and youth workers.
In November, police blamed three neo-Nazis who had met as
teenagers in the 1990s for nine unsolved murders of immigrant
shopkeepers and the shooting of a police officer.
Two of the three killed themselves before arrest and the survivor
is in custody, awaiting indictment.
A survey this week funded by parliament suggested many German schoolchildren use "Jew" as a term of abuse and 20 per cent of Germans are latently anti-Semitic. "We have to better grasp that attacks on minorities are attacks on ourselves as a whole," said Schroeder after the meeting.
Hans-Peter Friedrich, the interior minister, said he wanted to
deny neo-Nazis any refuge in society. "Only when we all actively stand up for democracy and tolerance can we root out right-wing extremism from our society," he said.
The chairman of Germany‘s Central Council of Jews, Dieter
Graumann, criticized the slow pace of the inquiry into the 10
killings. "The authorities are in continued hibernation in
investigating these dreadful acts," he said in an interview.
A parliamentary commission of inquiry into the killings is
scheduled to be set up on Thursday by a resolution in the Bundestag.
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
