The Polar 5 at Bremerhaven We almost filed this Associated Press dispatch from Oslo under Bottom Stories of the Day: Al Gore said Tuesday the world must act quickly to slow the melting of the world’s polar ice packs and glaciers before it reaches a critical rate for global warming. But it turns out the [...]
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Global Warming on the Rocks
Posted in Energy and Environment, German on April 29, 2009 |
‘The Porn Identity’: Vienna exhibit sheds the shadows
Posted in Arts and Entertainment, German, Photo galleries on March 25, 2009 |
Monica Bonvicini: “These days only few people know what work really means” (1999), “The Porn Identity. Expeditionen in die Dunkelzone”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna __________ You look around nervously as you approach the ticket counter. What would people think if they saw you going into a place like this? Even the woman at the counter seems [...]
Soldiers hammered 600,000 cubic meters of stone out of the ground in order to build an underground aqueduct in what is now Jordan. Roman engineers chipped an aqueduct through more than 100 kilometers of stone to connect water to cities in the ancient province of Syria. The monumental effort took more than a century, says [...]
Lawyer Who Fought Release of Imprisoned Russian Colonel Is Killed
Posted in German, Law, Politics, tagged Stanislav Markelov on January 19, 2009 |
A masked killer murdered human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova on Jan. 19 in broad daylight in the middle of Moscow’s “Golden Mile.” Human-rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov told reporters Monday he would use all legal means to overturn the early release of the most senior Russian military officer ever convicted of war [...]
