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...those big ideas just aren't as important anymore," she says. "We have to take care of ourselves." When the parents of today's twentysomethings entered the work force, "the higher the degree you got, the better your job would be, but that's not the case today," says Jan Bottcher, 27, a law student at Berlin's Free University. "We live with a lot more insecurity." That professional uncertainty has caused young Germans to seek stability in their personal lives. In a recent poll by the Forsa agency in Berlin, 87% of young people ages 18 to 30 said...
...Victorians" may surprise. There had, of course, been Africans in Britain long before Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, but in the 19th century they were a familiar sight - not that you'd know that from most accounts of the old Queen's reign. Yet the show's curator, Jan Marsh, discovered that Victorian art depicted many black subjects - not only servants, but also soldiers, sailors, actors, musicians and pugilists. "I began to look more systematically and discovered hundreds [of these images]," she says. "It both reveals Victorian art as not as white as we imagine, but also Victorian society...
Wilson's exertions have been matched by those of his counterparts across the packaged-food industry. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule goes into effect on Jan. 1 requiring nutrition labels to include the trans-fat content of packaged foods in which it exceeds half a gram per serving. Eager to pre-empt the requirement, manufacturers--from ABC Bakers, maker of Girl Scout Cookies, to Campbell Soup Co.--have been scrambling to come up with trans-fat- free recipes for their products...
...military can't afford to make an open-ended commitment to the relief effort without hampering antiterrorism operations in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, relief groups trying to raise money for the victims say they are encountering donor fatigue--perhaps caused by the massive private responses to the tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s top humanitarian-aid official, is calling for worldwide donations of some $272 million. "We are losing the race against the clock in the small villages," he says...
...table -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Date Location Magnitude Death toll Dec. 26, 2004 Indonesia 9 283, 106 The undersea earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that ravaged coastlines from Indonesia to Somalia Oct. 8, 2005 Pakistan/India 7.6 50, 000 (proj.) Dec. 26, 2003 Iran 6.6 26, 200 Jan. 26, 2001 India 7.7 20, 023 Aug. 17, 1999 Turkey 7.6 17, 118 Jan. 16, 1995 Japan...