Word: westly
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...days of Hitler and his cohorts in the tight quarters of the Führer's underground bomb shelter. Long before then, his first big commercial success in Germany was the 1981 film We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, the story of - another shocker - a 12-year-old girl in West Berlin who gets hooked on drugs and becomes a prostitute to support her heroin habit...
...Baader Meinhof Complex when it came out, to mixed reviews, last September, and now it's in the running for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars on Feb. 22. Directed by Uli Edel - who called the shots on Eichinger's first hit - the film focuses on West Germany in the '60s, when a group of largely middle class youth led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Enslin broke off from the massive anti-Vietnam War student protests and, calling themselves the Red Army Faction (more commonly known outside Germany as the Baader-Meinhof gang), went on a killing...
Every August, Nikolai Gusev juices hundreds of unwashed apples which grow at his dacha, west of Moscow. For a month he waits patiently for the juice to ferment and turn into a wine. He then distills the mixture, and stores the remaining liquid in a barrel for several months. The result is a highly potent drink (45% alcoholic), with an apple aftertaste which is the favorite tipple of his friends. "I had too many apples at my dacha and instead of throwing them away I wanted to do something with them, for me making moonshine is just a little...
...bird flu, it seems, is back. Last month's five deaths - one of the highest tallies of bird-flu deaths China has ever recorded in a month - were in locations as far removed from one another as Beijing in the north, Xinjiang in the west, Guangxi in the south, Hunan in the center and Shandong in the east. "From a disease-control perspective, the increase in cases in China is notable, as is the wide geographic spread," says Dr. Hans Troedsson, the World Health Organization's representative in China. There is still no evidence that the virus has mutated...
...Lisbon's effort to lead the way on the issue, says resolving Guantanamo is in Europe's own interests. "It is important strategically to improve transatlantic relations," she says. "With Obama the attitude has changed so the allies now can get together. It is also important politically for the West to be championing human rights." And there's perhaps no country better to do that than one which understands what it means when human rights are trampled...