John Reid: The enduring implications of the fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall, on November 9, 1989, was one of history's truly epochal moments. During what became a revolutionary wave sweeping ac...
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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
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Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Wagner descendant slams 'anti-semitic' music at Berlin Wall event
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Home
Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...
Lessons For US Economic Policy From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics
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The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...
Remembering The Fall Of The Berlin Wall And Soviet Domination: Commentary
GlobalPost | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
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I first saw the Berlin Wall in 1971. It was then about 10 years old and was the ugliest human structure I'd ever seen: gray, brutal, pitiless, unyield...
Ex-leaders mark fall of Berlin Wall
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home
Bush Sr, Gorbachev and Kohl reunite in Germany 20 years after the momentous event....
Nobody Likes Roosevelt Island's Main Street
Curbed | Curbed | Posted 10.27.2009 | Home
We wind our day down in the Ibiza of the East River, Roosevelt Island, and on its sorrowful and drab Main Street, which blogger Roosevelt Islander ...
Biography tracks the rise and fame of David Bowie
AP | MICHAEL HILL | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
— "Bowie: A Biography" (Crown, 448 pages, $26.99) by Marc Spitz: David Bowie knows what he's singing about when he performs "Changes." After making a big splash in the early 1970s as Ziggy Stardust, he went on to become the Thin White Duke, an artsy Berlin angst rocker, the "straight" Bowie of "Let's Dance" and more recently the distinguished rock elder who goes to fashion events with his model wife, Iman.
The career full of characters obscures the less fantastic, but very interesting, back story of David Jones, a British teen in the '60s who desperately wanted to make it big. He joins some R&B bands, dabbles in acting and mime, changes his last name to Bowie and records a painful-to-listen-to-now single titled "The Laughing Gnome" that seems to channel Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Nothing in particular sticks until he records the 1969 single "Space Oddity." Bowie later goes all-in with his pioneering glam character Ziggy, the one with the screwed up eyes and snow-white tan. Bowie never looks back, never stops changing.
Spitz, a music journalist, does a decent job of tracking Bowie's evolution through copious research and interviews with dozens of people who knew him.
Spitz clearly gets Bowie, and this is an unapologetic fan-boy biography. He is good at analyzing what Bowie accomplished, why it matters and what was likely influencing him at the time. He has insightful things to say about landmark Bowie songs "Life on Mars?" and "Heroes."
Debate over swine flu shots in Germany
AP | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home
BERLIN — A debate over two different swine flu vaccines overshadowed Germany's launch of a public inoculation program against the pandemic on Monday.
Critics warned the vaccinations campaign could be a "million-euro flop" as many people might refuse to participate after learning they would receive a different shot, with possibly more side effects, than one being given to politicians, high-ranking government employees and soldiers.
German authorities ordered 50 million doses of swine flu vaccines, and began inoculating physicians, nurses, rescue workers and the chronically ill this week.
However, most Germans will be getting Pandemrix, a vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline PLC that contains an adjuvant, while Germany's politicians, government employees and troops will get Celvapan, made by Baxter International without an adjuvant.
Adjuvants – or chemical compounds that boost the human body's immune response and stretch the vaccine's active ingredient so more doses can be made – are relatively new in flu vaccines, and there is limited data on how safe they are in certain population groups, such as pregnant women and children. No flu vaccines with adjuvants are licensed in the U.S., though they are commonly used in Europe.
1989 Europe's Revolution: The lost city of Bonn
The Independent | Independent | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
John le Carré called Bonn "a small town in Germany" when his Cold War thriller of the same name was published just seven years after the bu...
Today In WTF: A Red-Light District Goes Green
The Car Connection | CarConnection | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
In the current global economy, things are hard all over -- even in Berlin's red-light district. With fewer travelers coming to town for conferences ...
On the Road: Why Do We Want To Travel?
Robert Fuller | Posted 10.10.2009 | Living
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Fear is part of what makes travel so enlivening and revelatory. You're perpetually off-balance and on guard. After a while one yearns for the mindlessness of familiar routines.
New Reissues Prove Kraftwerk Is the Most Important Band Ever
Tim Mohr | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment
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SAfrican track chief keeps job after sex-test flap
AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home
The head of South African track will keep his job even though he admitted to lying about his role in gender tests done on runner Caster Semenya.
Athletics South Africa board member Chris Britz says Leonard Chuene retained his leadership position during a closed-door ASA council meeting on Thursday.
The move comes despite calls from the government sports ministry and several ASA opposition parties to fire Chuene.
Semenya won the 800-meter race at the world championships in Berlin in August. The IAAF said before the final they had ordered gender tests because of her muscular physique and stunning improvement in times.
Chuene repeatedly said Semenya's gender tests were done abroad. He later admitted knowing of tests conducted in South Africa.
EASA issues warning for Airbus instrument
AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
The European Aviation Safety Agency has issued a safety warning for an instrument to measure air speed that is used on Airbus A330 and A340 jets.
The directive in effect from Wednesday says malfunctions have been reported in the instruments, known as pitot probes.
The Cologne-based agency says the problem may originate with manufacturer Goodrich and could cause an in-flight air leak that would cause incorrect pressure and airspeed readings. Goodrich is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The agency is calling on operators to test the devices.
Experts have suggested that pitot tubes may have contributed to the June crash of an Air France flight, killing 228 people.
New York State of Mind
David Byrne | Posted 11.21.2009 | New York
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Does living in New York City foster a hard-as-nails, no nonsense attitude? Is that how one would describe the New York state of mind?
Women in Hip-Hop: The B-girl Be Festival
Lauri Lyons | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment
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When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Germany, France reinforce Iran sanctions threat
AP | GEIR MOULSON | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
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BERLIN — Germany and France on Monday reinforced a call for Iran to respond to concerns about its nuclear program in September or face tougher s...
U.S. drops demand for Israel building freeze in East Jerusalem
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home
BERLIN - The Obama administration has agreed to Israel's request to remove East Jerusalem from negotiations on the impending settlement freeze. ......
Video: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Special (Tiananmen Square)
SnagFilms | SnagFilms | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home
Hosted by Tom Brokaw, this primetime special honored both the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and the fall of the Berlin Wa...
Female Runner Accused of Being a Man
Advocate. | Advocate | Posted 09.19.2009 | Home
South African runner Caster Semenya is being asked to prove that she is indeed a woman after twice clocking the fastest time this year -- the l...
The Baby Asian Bearcat Debut (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 08.21.2009 | Green
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New-born Binturongs, also known as the Asian Bearcats, sit in a basket at the Tierpark zoo during their presentation to the media in Berlin, Germany T...
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An army of artists has assembled along the Berlin Wall on recent summer mornings, shielded by straw hats and baseball caps. Paintbrushes in one hand, ...
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BERLIN — It's past midnight in downtown Berlin, and the prostitutes pace in front of the Hackescher Markt's stores. Signs of a slow economy are ...
Jack Shaheen: Obama Delivers a Message of Peace to the Muslim World
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