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Where
Bright Ideas are Born: A Global Oasis of Tolerance Turns 60
The Tutzing academy aims to bring together leaders of political, cultural
and religious thought to promote tolerance and understanding. |
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German
Resistance Against Nazis Commemorated
Germans this week marked the 63nd anniversary of a courageous plot
to assassinate Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. |
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German
Poster Campaign Publicizes Aid for Immigrants
Posters went up in Germany Friday (July 13) prompting school teachers,
sports trainers and employers to help an estimated 15 million people
in Germany of immigrant origin. |
| Business, Technology
and the Environment |
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Silicon
Saxony: Germany at the Cutting-Edge According to Winfried Hoffmann,
chief technology officer of the Solar Business Group at Applied Materials,
rapid growth of the solar energy market in Germany has created an
enormous market potential for international semiconductor firms. |
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Geiz
is no Longer Geil in Germany’s Economic Upswing
Saturn company slogan “Geiz ist Geil”, which means, approximately
“stinginess is cool”, became a major buzzword during economic
doldrums, but an upswing has executives rethinking the wisdom of encouraging
customers to save. |
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Renewable
Resources: Furnace Converts Disposable Diapers into Energy
Patents are pending on Europe's first furnace fired entirely by soiled
diapers, constructed for the Liebenau Foundation, an operator of rest
homes in the south-west corner of Germany. |
| Culture
and Zeitgeist |
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Conductor
Kurt Masur, a Hero of German Unification, Turns 80
An audience of 8,000 will be in London to honor the former conductor
of Leipzig's Gewandhaus orchestra and the 1991-2002 music director
of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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Gerhard
Richter’s New Colored Glass Window for the Cologne Cathedral
Nears Completion
Richter's design will soon cast a warm glow in the towering church. |
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Freeing
German Minds: Grande Dame of Psychoanalysis Turns 90
Margarete Mitscherlich is a German-Danish psychoanalyst who co-wrote
one of Germany's most important postwar books - about the mechanisms
of collective repression |
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Theater
Tip: Gregor and Olga Grace the Capital Fringe Festival
Hideous comedy ensues when Gregor, a misanthropic Berlin poet and
his scheming Russian wife Olga bring their disastrous European vaudeville
show to 1947 Washington. |
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Readings:
TWIG Cannot Cover it All - But We Can Tell You Where to Find it!
This week, The Guardian takes a look at beach life in Berlin,
The Economist scrutinizes the German economic upturn, and
a German advertising agency imagines the wind as a melancholy misfit
who just needed a little job counseling. |
| Sports |
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Boxing:
Vitali Klitschko Comes out of Retirement to Seek Another World Title
The Ukrainian Klitschko is set for a self-styled "Oktoberfist"
fight in Munich's Olympiahalle against American heavyweight boxer
Jameel McCline on October 22, 2007. |
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Soccer:
Last Season for Kahn - Then Asia Beckons
Instead of joining the ranks of a handful of 40 year-old goalkeepers,
Kahn intends to complete a book and wants to "spend a lot of
time" in Asia where he believes he could carry out some "development
aid" in a goalkeeping coaching capacity. |
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