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...staggering 18.6% in the eastern states, is not likely to change soon." Goecke expects the most popular destinations will be the Netherlands (where the construction industry is in need of skilled workers) and Scandinavia (where medical personnel are needed), as well as Spain, Austria and Switzerland. Even among Germans who do have jobs, the atmosphere of pessimism and insecurity is driving people away. Berlin nurse Michael Günther was so "thoroughly disappointed by the government" and the "declining standards" of the country's financially ailing health care system that he decided to move where "taking care of the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gastarbeiter | 6/22/2003 | See Source »

...mischief-making. We're looking at the issue purely from an animal-welfare aspect." She also stresses that the report - the F.A.W.C.'s second in 17 years to call for an end to slaughter without stunning - has been in the works for four years. Similar exchanges took place in Switzerland last year, when the government proposed lifting its 19th century prohibition on ritual slaughter. Animal-welfare groups opposed the move and got so much public support that the government backed down. Thomas Lyssy, vice-president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, concedes that some opponents were motivated by genuine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stunning Debate | 6/15/2003 | See Source »

Baker, 6 ft. 9 in. tall and, as he puts it, "just a cupcake over 400 lbs." until a recent diet, has been a sports fan ever since he played basketball for the University of California at Irvine and later for a pro team in Vevey, Switzerland. After returning to California, he became mayor of Irvine and a real estate lawyer, but he never lost the sports bug. In 1996 he bought an arena football team, the Sting, and moved it from Las Vegas to Anaheim, Calif. By that time, the AFL's high-scoring games and hockey-style hits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking It Inside | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...before digressing into raps on the necessity for healthy living, the coming of Jah and how he plans to put an end to reggae music once and for all. Only the knowledge that he is a clean liver these days, has a home and a beautiful, rich wife in Switzerland and is still picking up big gigs around the world, suggests that he's more than a match for his demons. That and the gleeful giggle that accompanies his every phrase. "We'll have a good time, don't you worry," he promises. It was the same voices in Perry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Up To Scratch! | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

Barker was born in Brookline and raised in Argentina and Switzerland. He graduated from the College magna cum laude...

Author: By Ella A. Hoffman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Memoriam | 6/5/2003 | See Source »

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