Tag: Germany
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Anti-nuclear madness grips developed world
Orange County Register: Anti-nuclear madness grips developed world Gwynn Dyer, an independent journalist, writes: After the loss of 10 million American lives in the Three-Mile Island calamity in 1979, the death of 2 billion in the Chernobyl holocaust in 1986 and, now, the abandonment of all of northern Japan following the death of millions in…
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A Very European Break Up: She’s German. He’s Greek.
HT: Greg Mankiw This is really funny. Who knew economics could be so romantic?
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‘Emissions-free’ coal plant pilot fires up in Germany
Yahoo News: 'Emissions-free' coal plant pilot fires up in Germany BERLIN (AFP) – One of Europe's biggest power companies inaugurates on Tuesday a pilot project using a technology that it is presenting as a huge potential breakthrough in the fight against climate change. But green campaigners have denounced the project as a cosmetic operation that…
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Germany’s Jews: Latkes and Vodka
The Economist: Germany's Jews: Latkes and Vodka Immigrants from the former Soviet Union are transforming Jewish life in Germany. IN 1938 Julius Schoeps's parents did what many German Jews who were prescient or lucky did at the time: they left. They went to Sweden, where Julius's father worked as an archivist. Julius was born there…
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Germans Reconsider Religion
From the Christian Science Monitor: Germans Reconsider Religion BERLIN – This is the continent where some leading thinkers are talking about a "post-Christian Europe." And this is the country of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who infamously quipped, "God is dead." So some may be surprised at the receptivity in Germany this week to visiting Pope Benedict…