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...recuperation in a hospital in Kuwait, wearing a T shirt emblazoned with a picture of his hero, an English soccer star who was about to start a promotional tour of Japan after having just been traded to a Spanish club in a deal - vital to the fortunes of a German shoe company - that merited an editorial in the New York Times and that was brokered by a sports agency owned by a company from San Antonio, Texas...
...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...
...subsidies - amounting to half the total budget in West Berlin - the city once received for its businesses, schools and culture. As a capitalist island behind the Iron Curtain, it was seen as a special case, deserving of special support. Now all that has changed. After the East German government was swept away in 1990, the subsidies were phased out. It became too expensive for companies to run factories there. "Berlin's citizens were very spoiled in the time of the divided country," says Sarrazin. The massive job losses that followed reunification mean that the Berlin city government is still paying...
...management assistant. "Since I've got work, I feel I'm worth something," she says. "My life is ordered again, so I feel much better here than I did at home." In the 1960s and 1970s, Gastarbeiter (guest workers) poured into Germany to fill the menial jobs the Germans themselves didn't want. Now the trend is reversed, as Schulze and other Germans leave their homeland in search of work. In 2002, German labor offices arranged for more than 3,300 skilled workers to start jobs elsewhere in Europe, almost a 9% increase over 2000. Private employment agencies report...
...serves as a practice studio. They are passing around a bottle of Singa Jengke, or "crouching lion," a barely refined vodka produced in the industrial heartland of Tangerang. The music booming in the shop is heavy, probably Nordic, and a bootlegged DVD is showing the latest video from the German band Lucyfire. "We're thinking of going for the cowboy look like these guys, at our next show," jokes Otong, Koil's lead singer. "Our fans would probably freak...