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"I don't know if I ever hit anyone, it was always dark," says a 50-year-old truck driver and occasional DJ who gives his name only as Hans-Holger. He is recalling the days when, as a 19-year-old border guard for the old German Democratic Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Glass to East Germany | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

But first, about that dubious past. Sasol's origins can be traced to the work of two German scientists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, who in 1923 came up with a process to convert coal to liquid fuel. When Adolf Hitler seized power in coal-rich, oil-poor Germany in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Little Secret | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

And, in Ponyo, a little fish who wants to become a little girl. In this very loose retelling of The Little Mermaid - really, a dream triggered by a distant memory of the Hans Christian Andersen tale - we see her and her dozens of sisters navigating Miyazaki's notion of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ponyo: More Ani-Magic from Miyazaki | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

Gay: After the trials, I went home to Texas for about three days. Then I went to Germany to see the doctor [Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfarth, who treats many track and soccer stars in Europe] about my hamstring. And I didn't do any running for almost three weeks. No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Was Really Bugging Tyson Gay | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

Copenhagen is a very nice city in a very nice country. And if you're like me, that's all you might know about the place, along with the fact that was once home to Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard and Hamlet. But next winter, Copenhagen will become the center of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Denmark Sees the World in 2012 | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

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