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...year-old Spanish worker and I belong to "Generation Disappointment" [July 20]. I have a badly paid job which does not fit with either my studies or my expectations. The global crisis has hit Spain especially hard but we should have seen it coming. The Spanish obsession with buying property has also helped to drive us where we are now. That is the reason why, unlike most people, my husband and I have decided to rent an apartment on the outskirts of Madrid. We are happy with our decision: it gives us more time to save for a mortgage...
...only country in which minorities are underprivileged. Europe and the U.S. both face the problem of minorities that are not properly integrated. But in the Chinese case, things seem to be different: for example, the injunction to speak Mandarin at schools and universities in Xinjiang is seen as oppression rather than helping integration. Images of the Chinese police responding to riots with violence are only part of the picture. Matthias Paul, AUGSBURG, GERMANY...
...seen the Lutherans, mostly packs of high school students, choking up the narrow sidewalks of the French Quarter. The Times-Picayune reports that about 37,000 of them are in town for a convention. The locals stare at these visitors who take pictures of streetcars, wait for the signal to let them cross empty intersections, and wear conspicuously colorful “Jesus Justice Jazz” t-shirts...
...fishing vessels bobbing in the harbor. This should fuel your journey around the vast National Archaeological Museum, marcheo.napolibeniculturali.it, and its window on the world buried by the ashes of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Pompeii's frescoes have just been unveiled after a decade of restoration, and can be seen alongside artifacts from sculptures to erotic mosaics. Afterward, walk south to Piazza Bellini, where Earl Grey tea and English cakes on the terrace of the literary café Intra Moenia, www.intramoenia.it, are the perfect way to ease back into the modern world...
...such declarations and allow potential agitators back home, especially now. Relocation to other countries is a more likely option, especially given that the European Union and Britain have removed the organization from their terrorist lists, potentially paving the way for the MEK's transfer. But that remains to be seen...