Word: duisburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last may Angela Teusch walked into Duisburg's central train station, where she works as a cleaner, to find her co-workers slack-jawed with incredulity. They were staring at a fresh crop of campaign posters plastered on the station's walls. They portrayed her husband, Wolfgang, a steelworker and union shop steward at ThyssenKrupp Stahl, in his silver blast-furnace smock and hard hat. The real surprise was not the larger-than-life apparition of Herr Teusch and his frayed walrus moustache, but the poster's message: an endorsement from this lifelong Social Democrat of the opposition Christian Democratic...
...They're not looking after the needs of the common worker." The Christian Democrats are not the only alternative, though. At a national level, the Greens are doing well in opinion polls even though they are in coalition with the spd. Doris Janicke, the Green party mayor in the Duisburg city council, is instead working in coalition with the cdu. The two parties agree on the importance of protecting the environment, and even on some economic issues, says Janicke. She too took aim at the wooden bird - and missed. "As a young girl, I was told by my parents...
...some of the people who frequent the mosque at the academy have had direct or indirect contact with al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab, though not charged with any crime, is one such person. He came to Germany in 1986, and in 1995 completed a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He moved to Bonn in 2000. While in Duisburg, Abdelwahab led an Islamic study group, one member of which was Christian Ganczarski, a German convert to Islam who is in police custody in France and has admitted ties to al-Qaeda. Abdelwahab admits to knowing Ganczarski, but "Does that...
...information highway, and people are using the Web to help reduce congestion on the tarmac too. At www.autobahn.nrw.de, drivers in North-Rhine Westphalia can see a real-time simulation of traffic conditions on its 2,250 km of motorway. The man behind the site, Michael Schreckenberg of Duisburg-Essen University, is now at work on the world's largest traffic-information system, using sensor-gathered data to channel travel advice to TV, radio and motorway screens. If you still can't face the rush hour, try staying home like the 2% of Europeans who now telework daily. BIKES...
...urban enclaves with extensive Turkish networks of shops, restaurants, mosques and professional services. They can even watch Turkish TV on more than a dozen channels available via cable or satellite. "You just don't need to know any German to get along," says Hanim Han, 15, who lives in Duisburg's district of Marxloh, known locally as Little Istanbul...