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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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Arnie's Childhood Home Turned Into Museum
Sun, 07/31/2011 - 15:25 —
Arnold Schwarzenegger's childhood home in his birthplace of Thal in southern Austria has been turned into a museum. The event had been timed to coincide with his birthday, but Schwarzenegger was not present.
Instead, the former California governor went bicycling in Venice Beach, California, on his 64th birthday. But organizers said he will be attending a grander opening in Austria at a later date, the Telegraph reported citing Austrian press reports.
The two-storey light yellow house in Thal in southern Styria has been restored to look as it did when Schwarzenegger first came into the world on July 30, 1947.
Among the 1,000 objects and photos on display are his very first weights, with which the future champion bodybuilder started training, as well as the desk behind which he sat as California governor. (Photo: Schwarzenegger in 2009 on a visit to his house. His friend Peter Urdl is in the center)
Monitors also recall Schwarzenegger's Hollywood career, with trailers from his various films, while a life-size model of his 'Terminator' stands in a corner.
It is unclear when the actor will visit his first home for the grand opening, but he was expected to bring with him a 10-foot high bronze statue he commissioned from a US artist to adorn the outside of the museum.
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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
