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That sort of artsy fashion, plus the underground music scene, plus 170 museums and a host of renovated monuments have all helped fuel a surge in tourism. The fact that discount airlines like easyJet have made Schönefeld Airport, in the former communist East, their German hub has also given the city a boost. The number of visitors from abroad is up 2.5 times since 2003. Just as dramatic is the influx of foreigners moving to Berlin to live - they now make up almost 1 in 7 of its 3.5 million inhabitants. The number of non-German Europeans living...
...company launched its "Give Back Getaways" in April 2008, more than 2,000 vacationers have signed up in dozens of locations around the globe. Sue Stephenson, vice president of the company's "Community Footprints" initiative, says the half-day programs range from assisting local food banks to participating in music therapy for disabled kids...
Chances are you’ve heard of Hayward-Zhang. It’s popped up in your inbox and been plastered on your dorm windows. If you strolled by the Science Center this week you couldn’t have missed the pumping music and zealous students passionately bellowing the candidates’ names and waving banners. By now, you probably know that George J. J. Hayward ’11 and his running mate Felix M. Zhang ’11 are contending in the Undergraduate Council’s presidential elections this year, with a platform built...
What you can’t tell from the campaigning: Hayward is a big fan of hip hop artist J Dilla, jazz musician John Coltrane, and composer George Gershwin. He has more than 50,000 songs in his music collection. When he’s not adding tunes to his colossal music library, Hayward serves as an active member in both the Institute of Politics and the Black Student Association. Within the UC, he is currently elected vice chair of Educational Policy, vice chair of House Life Issues, and a member of the 2009 Budget Cuts Task Force...
...words should be music to the world's ears. As debt-laden consumers in the U.S. retrench, increasingly wealthy Chinese consumers could become one of the most important sources of growth for the global economy. Shoppers in China are opening their newly stuffed wallets wider than ever. Passenger car sales surged 76% in October from a year earlier, while overall retail sales jumped 16.2%. Such spending has contributed to China's robust recovery from the global economic crisis. Gross domestic product grew a hefty 8.9% in the third quarter from a year earlier. (See TIME's photoessay "The Making...