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...system more than a need to demonstrate against it." First-time voters in last month's elections ranked "labor-market policy" as the key factor that would determine their support. Social justice trailed well behind, and environmental policy was ranked next to last, registering with just 8%. "Young Germans tend to let their belly decide who they vote for," says Stefanie Wahl of the Bonn-based think tank the Institute for Economic and Social Research. They have also embraced the traditional family values that their firebrand elders rejected. Not for them the lifestyle of Fischer - married four times...
...government spends a reported $1.5 million a year to maintain the mummy. It's not an obscene sum, and most Russians passing through Red Square aren't clamoring to see Lenin moved, even if he commands little of their attention. People tend to walk or jog past the mausoleum; a young couple photographs each other in front of it, beer cans in hand. The Dikii family, visiting from Tambov, Russia, stops to talk to the policeman at the tomb. "So is he going to be buried?," the father, Vladimir, asks. With a laugh, the policeman explains that a hydraulic lift...
...Writing about work like theirs is usually an uphill battle. Nobel-worthy research can be impenetrable to a lay audience, and the men and women doing it tend to be shy and retiring. Not so these two. Warren, known for his absolute loyalty to the bolo tie, wasn?t afraid to go out on a limb for an improbable idea. Back in 1979, Warren, who was then working at Royal Perth Hospital, observed a spiral bacteria growing in the stomachs of people with gastritis, or inflammation of the stomach. He became the butt of jokes among his colleagues, who knew...
Studies show that sports fans generally tend to be smarter—and work harder—than the societal mean...
...obsessed with material items and status with those people who are secular insinuates a two-way street between those two characteristics. That relation is not only uncharacteristic of many secularists, but also is as offensive as stating that people who kill to try and enforce their beliefs tend to be religious...