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...BIELEFELD, GERMANY...
...After three decades of opposition, the number of Germans who support nuclear energy is creeping upwards. According to surveys by the Bielefeld-based Emnid Institute for both the atomic lobby Deutsches Atomforum and the anti-nuclear organization Greenpeace Germany, 48% of Germans are in favor of extending the remaining running times of the country's nuclear power plants, compared to 40% two years ago. "People are starting to come around to the idea of keeping our plants open longer," Claudia Kemfert, head of energy and the environment at the Berlin-based DIW research institute, tells TIME...
...have a master's degree in economics and want to work in the U.S. What is your stance on aspiring legal immigrants like me? -Tarun Kumar, BIELEFELD, GERMANYI believe we should have a moratorium on all immigration--legal or not--for at least three years. We have to have an immigration time-out, I think, in order to assimilate the people who have come here already...
...Hildesheim in northern Germany regularly beat and humiliated a classmate, forcing him to kiss their shoes, eat chalk and masturbate. They filmed some of the incidents and circulated the footage via e-mail. "It's an increase in the level of perfidy," says Klaus Hurrelmann, professor of sociology at Bielefeld University. "The victims can no longer save face through silence." As the number and seriousness of incidents increases, many parents worry that the problem is spiraling out of control. They are demanding that schools and policymakers do something - and in response, governments and educational authorities are devising new ways...
...right-wing extremism, who see a crackdown as only part of the solution. "Xenophobia in the public is still relatively strong, and it is being separated ((from the criminal acts)). There is nothing in this ((program)) to overcome it," says Wilhelm Heitmayer, a social scientist at the University of Bielefeld. He argues that the crackdown has the misleading effect of "reinterpreting" the attacks as being those of a few criminals on the periphery. Among the statistics experts use to illustrate the depth of the problem is a poll this month by the Allensbach Institute showing that sympathy for those attacking...