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Helmut Kohl could relate. In the 1980s, Germans used to make fun of their Chancellor for his thick Rhineland accent and stumbling speeches. But when more-elegant and eloquent statesmen were dithering after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Kohl seized the moment. He propelled East and West Germany to unification within a year, while others thought that unification, if it happened at all, was a distant prospect. It was Kohl's decisiveness that made him a leader, not his honeyed tone...
Germany's "disease-management programs" began in 2002 and cover some 3 million chronic patients. The results are promising. One survey by the University of Heidelberg of some 11,000 patients in the Saxony Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate regions found that the death rate in older diabetics in the program was about 8% lower than among diabetics who received regular care. And when one of Germany's largest insurers tracked 20,000 coronary heart disease and diabetes patients enrolled in disease-management programs for 15 months, it found the percentage of patients requiring hospitalization dropped from...
...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...
...past five years or so did Germans look up and start worrying about the costs of globalization, and their concerns seem to be growing. Last month the country rose as one in protest when Finnish mobile-phone giant Nokia announced it was shutting down its plant in the Rhineland city of Bochum to move to Romania, threatening 2,300 German jobs. When the local SPD branch called for a nationwide boycott of Nokia products, billboards blared NO NOKIA all the way to Berlin. Some 56% of Germans in one poll say they're ready to sign...
...most of the last half-century, Düsseldorf, the capital of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, relied almost entirely on its harbor for its growth within the Rhineland, Europe's third strongest economic region after London and Paris. And as the city began to shift from strategic shipping hub to creative media center in the early 1990s, its chevron-shaped dockside led the way. Today, following over a decade of frenzied development, MedienHafen (Media Harbor) has become a hip center for great restaurants, swish bars and dimly lit lounges, many housed in outré structures designed...