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...German capital. The company will stop making "Yes" chocolate bars and lay off 450 people - another rainstorm feeding the flood of 250,000 manufacturing jobs that have been lost in Berlin since German reunification in 1990. With the city's unemployment rate at an astounding 18.4%, a dark mood of pessimism and angst has settled over Berlin as it struggles with a weak global economy, huge debts and unaffordable welfare provisions that have left the city bankrupt. Every month for nearly a year the two biggest problems cited by Berliners have been the threat of unemployment and concern about...
...were not fulfilled. "People here thought, 'Now the West is coming with all its glitter and gold,'" Siggelkow, 39, says. "But in the wake of unification came unemployment and a dramatic rise in broken marriages. A generation of neglected children is growing up here." Even in West Berlin the mood is hardly upbeat. Julia Wahn, 30, who just finished her teacher training, is still looking for a job and has few prospects because of the education-budget cuts. "Germany is worse off today than a year ago and Berlin is the worst place to be," she says. "I have lots...
...school. Last fall, the city declared an "extreme budgetary hardship," the first step toward winning extraordinary financial help from the federal government. But the German government is in terrible financial shape too - and the two sides have failed to reach an agreement on aid. In the meantime, Berlin's mood grows darker. "When we talk about poverty in Germany, we usually think of the Third World," says East Berlin's Siggelkow. "But we have an enormous problem right here." And, sadly for Berliners, there's no easy...
...impact on the lives of ordinary Palestinians struggling under the chokehold of military occupation while settlements and Sharon's "security fence" encroach on more and more of their territory. Ultimately, the actions of Hamas, and possibly other militant groups, will be dictated primarily by how they read the Palestinian mood. Which may be why the idea of an international, or U.S. peacekeeping force to separate the Israelis and Palestinians is suddenly cropping up in the Middle East headlines every other...
...Today, sitting in their landmark Kowloon studio?where the walls are covered with two decades of messages from fans?the boys from Beyond are in an affable and unapologetic mood. "It's a technique to be able to strike a balance between rock and commercial music," says Paul Wong, the band's 39-year-old guitarist. "Once you decide to produce albums, undergrounders call you rock traitors, but the public doesn't even know who you are yet. Every day you're struggling between commercialization and your dream, which we had to remember very clearly. [That dream] was to change...