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...infirmary—to the fortunate—such as when a mountain guide stalled the Nazis, who were about to find his getaway home in the Alps. The Center for European Studies sponsored the event in collaboration with Martin M. Wallner ’11, a native of Austria who spent two years in the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service before coming to Harvard. He said he was happy with the way the event turned out and that Engleithner imparted many lessons, among which was the importance of being thankful. “I think the most important lesson...
...Youth Around the Globe: "Being a bully or being bullied is not uncommon. Around one in 10 OECD children is a recent bullying victim... Greece and Austria have the most bullies, whereas Sweden, the Czech Republic and Iceland have the least. Perpetrators and victims of bullying are more likely to be boys than girls. Only in Hungary and Greece are girls victims of bullying more often than, or equal to, boys. There are no countries with more female than male perpetrators. ... Underage drinking is a big problem in the United Kingdom. Although rates have fallen since 2001/2002, in 2005/2006...
...World Health Organization (WHO) raised the pandemic alert level on Wednesday evening to phase 5, signaling that the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years was imminent. That announcement came on a day when the H1N1 swine flu virus continued to spread worldwide, with new cases confirmed in Austria, Germany, Britain, New Zealand and Israel, bringing the global caseload...
...Lowboy” is William Heller, a 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who goes off his meds and goes on a manic journey through the New York City subway system. The contemporary subject-matter is a departure for Wray, whose last two novels have taken place in pre-war Austria and the antebellum South. He told New York Magazine that the more palatable setting pick “had something to do with wanting to survive as a writer. Sooner or later it would be nice if I could make my publisher some money.” It?...
...that gamblers who visit gaming Web sites are more likely to self-regulate their betting behavior based on their pattern of wins and losses. Those who are addicted to gambling do not exhibit such control. The study began in February 2005 and observed 3,445 subscribers to BWIN, an Austria-based gaming Web site. The participants’ poker outcomes were analyzed over the course of two years, and the number of chips they bought and sold per session was tallied. The study, which investigated online gambling as “a potential object of addictive behavior...