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"Qum" Buy Ya

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 11.13.2009 | World

Read More: United Kingdom, Qum, Oic, United Nations Security Council, Arab League, Iraq, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Shane Bauer, Iran Nuclear Weapons, United Arab Emirates, France, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohamed ElBaradei, Iran Revolutionary Guard, Josh Fattal, Saudi Arabia, Tehran, Russia, Israel, German, Hillary Clinton, Sara Shourd, IAEA Iran, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.

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Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Taxes, Money, Germany, Germans, Tax Cuts, Taxpayer Money, Taxpayers, German, World News

A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes....

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Global Warming: 2 German Cargo Ships Pass Through 'Arctic Passage'

AP | MATT MOORE and SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Arctic Sea, Cargo Ships, Northeast Passage, Climate Change, Arctic Passage, Korea, Greenhouse Gases, Siberia, German, Global Warming, Shipping, Green News

FRANKFURT — Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South...

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Germany's Far Right Uses Internet To Spread Propoganda

Deutsche Welle | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Germany's Far Right, Germany Far Right, Neo-Nazi, Nazi, Skin Heads, Hitler, Germany, Neo-Nazis, Neo Nazi, Right Wing, Nazi Germany, German, Right-Wing Propoganda, Germany Skin Heads, World News

The number of right-wing extremist websites in Germany is rising, with a group charged with youth protection warning that the internet has become the ...

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Germany Bans Tanning Beds For Minors

Allure.com | Kayleigh Donahue | Posted 08.01.2009 | Style

Read More: Tanning Beds, German, Germany, Germany Bans Tanning Beds, Tanning, Style News

We might not share in the German fervor for David Hasselhoff, but there is a guilty pleasure Germans have that is shared in the U.S.: the tanning bed ...

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"Rolling in Dough"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Dining, Pizza, Restaurant, Humor, Cooking, Connecticut, Food, German, Dog, Sicily, Swedish, New York, Italian, Irish, Living News
Jerry Zezima

I stood behind the counter at Paradiso ready to make culinary history. Or at least a large spinach and meatball pie.

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The Inauguration and the Historical Spectre of Genocide

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Jews, Middle East, New Administration, Inauguration, Sudan, Washington Mall, German, United Human Rights Council, Ahmadinejad, Hutu, Tutsi, World News
Raymond J. Learsy

The sea of joyous humanity on the Mall in Washington gave us a snapshot of what a million people looked like. It gave us some inkling of the sheer size of what was perhaps humanity's greatest crime.

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Adolf Merckle, German Billionaire, Mourned In Hometown

New York Times | CARTER DOUGHERTY | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Adolf Merckle Suicide, German, Adolf Merckle, Business News

BLAUBEUREN, Germany -- When the body of Adolf Merckle was discovered on the railroad tracks here last week, authorities ruled the German billionaire's...

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The Bailout Bill Passes Congress, President Signs the Legislation, and the World Is Saved. Not.

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Metastable Oil Prices and Stock Markets, Simple Solutions, Economy, Tokyo Stock Exchanges, Congress, World-Wide, Mccain, Obama, Paris, German, Republican, Europe Recession, Nymex, Dow Jones, Bailout, Free Market, China, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

We saw it when Reagan became president in the early '80s and a decade ago when the price of oil (in real dollars) hit an all-time low. Here we go, back to the past again. That's why it's ominous.

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"Winespeak" and Other Obscenities

Marlene Rossman | Posted 09.15.2008 | Style

Read More: German, Wine, French, Critics, Flavors, Barnyard, Food, Rhone, Style News
Marlene Rossman

Why do we need experts (and I am one of those) to teach, tell and advise us on what wine tastes like? So we won't dribble it down our lips and bibs and never have a clue as to what we are tasting?

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Do Americans Think - Or Just Act?

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Columnist, French, Conscious, Berlin, Obama, Linguist, Future, Verb, Past, Fareed Zakaria, Bush, Bill Kristol, Un, Global Public Square, Poop, Nyt, Who Killed Daniel Pearl, 18th Century, Josef Joffe, Think, Act, Magazine, Unconscious, Language, Cnn, Herr SpöRl, Conditional, Tense, Bernard-Henri Levy, Present, Die Zeit, German, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What I'm really saying is Americans are unconscious. You can see it in the verbs. This isn't a value judgment, I am just intrigued by what gets in and...

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