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...There were some strong opinions expressed,” said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan...
...little retail therapy. It has more and more people "going to Balconia"--passing up a traditional holiday for staying home to water the geraniums. And as companies move production farther east, to the new E.U. member states and Asia, to avoid strict employment laws and high labor costs, German industry is gradually being hollowed out. In 1993, for example, Siemens employed 238,000 people in Germany and 153,000 in other countries; 10 years later, these figures were reversed, to 167,000 in Germany and 247,000 elsewhere. Some of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder's economic reforms are kicking...
Creative types have long been drawn to Berlin because of low rents, ample studio space and the relatively low cost of living. The German capital's last cultural heyday was in the 1970s, when the likes of David Bowie and Iggy Pop lived in the then divided city. Now musicians, artists and designers from as far afield as Denmark and Japan are giving Berlin a young vibe again--nearly half of its 3.4 million residents are under 35. "Berlin is not a rich city, so the scene is not at all about money or society or status," says Slimane. "People...
...part of the wave of development that happened when the government and investment community made the push into biotech," says Echeverri, 35, his dark eyes darting to his cell phone to check text messages. "This year we're going to make a profit, and a five-year-old German biotech company that's making a profit is rare...
...institute in Dresden--and others like it dotted around Germany--is starting to do things differently. Traditionally, German research universities are rigidly hierarchical. The head of the laboratory gets all the resources and, if there's a breakthrough, all the credit. The Dresden Max Planck Institute takes a more laissez-faire--in fact, a more American--approach. Its faculties are modeled after U.S. universities in which postdoctorate researchers have better access to funding, doing away with the top-down approach. The Dresden institute is also aggressively trying to attract researchers from outside Germany. "We are adapting the U.S. system...