Word: rhine
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...over by a French charm offensive aimed at repairing the relationship that was once at the heart of Europe? That's the question being asked in Paris, where top government officials are openly talking about their desire to rekindle closer ties with their neighbors across the Rhine. Since the end of World War II the Franco-German relationship has been the motor of European integration, the driving force behind the creation of the European Union and, more recently, the introduction of the euro. But the ardor has cooled in this decade, particularly under Merkel, who has regularly struggled to conceal...
...Knill said that he started this Web site in 2006 just for fun as a movie collector. "I love movies," said Dr. Knill, who grew up in a Swiss village on the Rhine River near Zurich. "My place is filled with books and movies. We have stacked them on the floors...
...More than 20,000 teachers and day-care workers put down their crayons across Germany on Tuesday, including the states of North Rhine Westphalia and Bavaria, and eastern states such as Saxony and Thuringia. The teachers are demanding less stressful working conditions in the country's state-run kindergartens (which cater to children from the age of 2 or, in some states, age 1) and are calling for a new "health-protection contract." The industrial action is being organized by public-sector union Verdi and the GEW education union, which says that teachers are overburdened with red tape and suffer...
...report also shows that the west and the north, regions commonly believed to be prosperous, actually hold some pockets of poverty. In places such as the city of Hamburg and the states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine Westphalia and Rhineland Palatinate, around 15% of people are living on a low income...
...Health Institute in the state of North Rhine Westphalia] examined Red Bull Cola in an elaborate chemical process and found traces of cocaine," Bernhard Kuehnle, head of the food safety department at Germany's federal ministry for consumer protection, told the German press on Sunday. According to this analysis, the 0.13 micrograms of cocaine per can of the drink does not pose a serious health threat - you'd have to drink 12,000 L of Red Bull Cola for negative effects to be felt - but it was enough to cause concern. Kuehnle's agency is due to give its final...