Word: austria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British prisoners held on suspicion of terrorism for two years at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay are to be released. Straw said it would be up to police and prosecutors to decide whether the men would face any charges in the U.K. Families Find Fault AUSTRIA Relatives of the 155 people who died in a ski train fire in 2000 reacted with anger to the acquittal by a Salzburg court of 16 people charged with negligence in relation to the disaster and said they would seek compensation in civil courts. Prosecutors lodged an appeal. Impeachment Ball...
Other fellows include Ingrid Lehmann, former director of the United Nations Information Service in Vienna and current professor at the University of Salzburg in Austria; Rebecca MacKinnon, CNN’s Tokyo bureau chief and correspondent; Seth Mnookin ’94, a former Newsweek writer; and Barbie Zelizer, the Raymond Williams professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication...
...Alsatian skin (bought in Berlin), a rug made from four golden retrievers (from Copenhagen), individual cat pelts (obtained in Barcelona) and kitten-in-a-basket novelties made from dog fur. "I have personally bought these little cat figurines in virtually every country in the E.U.," he says. In Austria, Stevenson adds, some health shops advertise catskin rugs and blankets as a natural remedy for rheumatoid arthritis: "This is totally bogus nonsense." The massive trade in the fur of "companion animals" is a growing issue among animal-rights campaigners. After dogs and cats have been inhumanely killed, they...
...MEANWHILE IN AUSTRIA ... Hell's Bells Playing Christmas carols in shops during the festive season is tantamount to "psychological terror" for store workers, according to a study by an Austrian trade union. By the time the big day arrives, the study says, hours of listening to piped carols such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night will have made many store workers aggressive and confrontational. The union wants shops to limit the number of hours per day the music is played, and restrict it to areas where Christmas gifts are being sold...
...words on the snowman in the eastern Tyrol skiing resort of Steinplatte read "Snow guaranteed from end of November to end of Easter". Fears that global warming is melting away Alpine ski slopes are adding to an unusually Grinchy state of mind in Austria...