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...works for an agency that books DJs. But in the transition from hippy to hip, some of the anarchy of earlier times has gone, particularly since the government moved from Bonn in the 1990s. Birkenstocks have made way for handmade $400 Trippen boots "that express an individuality not found in the traditional mass market," as the Berlin company's founders, Angela Spieth and Michael Oehler, put it. Especially in parts of Mitte, there's been a mini-invasion of BMWs and Mercedes in smartly restored streets that just a few years ago were pockmarked legacies of communist-era neglect...
...while wanting to really make it as a dramatist. He hit pay dirt with his play Lady Frederick in 1907. But by the time of his last play, Sheppey, in 1933, he had come full circle; he was done with the world of the theater, which he found almost hateful, and only wanted to concentrate on his fiction, considering that, at last, to be his real writing. He was an acknowledged master of the short story and a great deal of his fiction was based on material provided by his extensive travels. His first trip to Samoa and the South...
...selection of images from Seibert's 2008 book From Somewhere to Nowhere: China's Internal Migrants, will be showcased for two months beginning Nov. 12 at Zurich's Helmhaus Museum. During the course of his project, Seibert found that while his subjects earn vastly higher salaries in the cities than they do in the countryside, their material gains cannot adequately compensate for the enormous sacrifices they make. "They watch TV and see pictures of worlds they will never be part of," he says. "That can create unrest." Such is the dark side of China's boom...
Fortunately, Johnson soon quelled any suspicions of his character and found a niche in his new room. “David moved into our room and into our hearts,” said Long. “We call him our Christmas miracle… just a little late...
...malaria continue to crop up on the Thai-Cambodian border. In addition to having longer years of exposure to the miracle drug, residents like the gem-mine workers rely on an unregulated, informal health sector, rife with cheap counterfeits and improper treatments. Last month, a Gates-funded study found that 60% of malaria drugs in the area were substandard or counterfeit. Many of the counterfeits contain a small amount of artemisinin so they can pass authenticity tests, and some fake drug containers have holograms logos more sophisticated than the ones on the genuine boxes. Even for experts...