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...German Recycling Many nations are starting to recycle things that are easy to get out of the waste stream, such as paper and glass, but the Germans have gone much further. In 1993 Germany expanded its recycling program to include all product packaging -- from gum wrappers to yogurt cups. A glut of recyclables has hampered the program, but the Germans are committed to making it work...
What are the proper borders for a country? The Germans thought Germany should contain all German-speaking people; Poland and Czechoslovakia disagreed, and World War II was the result. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the new political star in Moscow, believes Russia should include the striped sections of the top map below (note the desired piece of land in the northeast corner). Radical Palestinians envision a Palestinian state with the pre-1947 British Mandate borders as reflected in the map below and to the left. And Serbs hope to create a Greater Serbia that would encompass the striped portions of the map below...
...styles and the latter towards more traditional Indian designs. Accompanied by a series of lectures and gallery talks by curators throughout the semester. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK)Stratification: An Installation of Works Since 1960. Through Feb. 26, 2006. Curatorial intern M. Celka Straughn organized this exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven key pieces from the museum’s collection. Several undergraduates were also involved in the project and will be giving gallery talks. The Busch-Reisinger Museum. Free. (DJH & LRC)—Happening was compiled by Lois E. Beckett, Lindsay R. Canant...
...change in his trajectory came shortly after he graduated from Berkeley in 1988. Seidel traveled to Germany in order to learn the language and to continue training as a classics scholar. While in Berlin, Seidel watched the events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre unfold on both East German and West German television...
...into the EU. Officially, both France and Germany support Turkey’s bid, yet just over 20 percent of the population in each of those countries agree with their governments’ position. Indeed, influential leaders in each of these countries, including French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, are fervently against Turkey’s inclusion in the EU. Further east, an October poll showed that Greeks have become more skeptical about Turkish membership in the last year—almost 60 percent of Greek voters now oppose that possibility. To make things worse, Austria...