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...light of past projects, Holway said. Douglass, who became interested in politics while working on a political campaign as a college senior, will examine the factors that have influenced network news coverage of immigration issues. Maier, whose grandfather was a journalist arrested by the Nazis in Austria, will study how blogs, Internet news outlets, and social media have affected both politics and the media industry and the ways that readers can participate in news media. “There is no more strict line between journalists and consumers,” Maier said. Stein will research political activists?...
...Bionade's success. Sarah Wiener, one of Berlin's top chefs, serves the drink in all three of her pan-European restaurants. "It's a great idea. The timing was right," she says. In 2002-03, Bionade sold 2 million bottles. By 2006, it was available in Switzerland, Austria and the Benelux countries, and sold 70 million. Leipold, now 69, is relieved the company's faith in its product is paying off. "We were just too early," he says...
...terrorism on June 28 that began the crisis. At first it seemed like just another assassination in just another Muslim country (Bosnia-Herzegovina, occupied by Austria-Hungary only a few years before). And although the terrorists scored a big hit (Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne), the financial markets took it in their stride. Stocks barely moved...
...rise skyline, which not long ago consisted mainly of bombed-out buildings. More than 1.5 million Afghans own mobile phones, six independent TV stations have launched since 2002 and 16 private banks are expected to be open by early next year. "It's not like investing in Austria or the United Arab Emirates where things are pretty straightforward," says Mohammad Rafi Fazil, economics officer for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Afghanistan. "Given that we are only just emerging from a postconflict situation, things are very complicated. But the possibilities are endless if you are able to adapt...
Germany and Austria, mindful of their post-war obligations to Jewish families, have traditionally supported efforts to restore paintings allegedly looted by the Nazis to their original and rightful owners. But the stratospheric prices fetched by some of those paintings in recent weeks - and the resultant fees collected by auction houses and the lawyers representing the owners - have given both countries second thoughts...