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...giant Swiss food company Nestlé jolted Berlin a few months ago by announcing that it is closing its candy factory in the German capital. The company will stop making "Yes" chocolate bars and lay off 450 people - another rainstorm feeding the flood of 250,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost in Berlin since German reunification in 1990. With the city's unemployment rate at an astounding 18.4%, a dark mood of pessimism and angst has settled over Berlin as it struggles with a weak global economy, huge debts and unaffordable welfare provisions that have left the city bankrupt...
...FRANK WÖCKEL, business manager of Berlin's Eitmann-Verlag publishers, on why the firm, which prints antismoking books, bans employees from smoking, even at home on their own time
...White House and due to be signed by Bush this week. He has also announced a new effort to help Americans volunteer overseas. "We are the nation that liberated continents and concentration camps," he said in a speech last week. "We are the nation of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift and the Peace Corps." The compassion strategy was also at work when Bush castigated the Europeans for opposing bioengineered food and subsidizing agricultural exports--because, he said, these policies are perpetuating starvation in Africa...
...Born in Berlin in 1932, Watkins and her family of German refugees moved around pre-World War II Europe, evading the growing Nazi presence...
Back then, of course, there were no tabloid-TV confessionals or presidential tapes or paparazzi pictures, just the mysterious comings and goings in and around the White House. So what did a reporter report? Well, we had the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the space race, the Cuban missile crisis and Bull Connor in Birmingham, Ala . Never saw one of the girls in the Cabinet Room interfering with the President on how to handle Vietnam. In that pre-Geraldo world, the Mimis were a nonstory...