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(Some) German Politicians Don’t Understand the Internet

Namely, Lutz Heilmann, a member of the German parliament, Bundestag, since 2005. Through a legal measure put forward by Heilmann against Wikipedia e.V., the German part of the non-profit organisation running the Wikipedia website, the German-language version is unavailable right now. But since it’s the internet, this is not enough to silence unwanted information.

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Unemployment Puts Obama on the Spot

Today, Friday, the U.S. government announced the highest unemployment rate (6.5%) since 1994. October marked the 10th consecutive month of decline on the job market. Since August, the U.S. economy has lost 651,000 jobs, October accounting for 240,000 jobs alone, totaling 1.2 million lost jobs so far this year.

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As Goes the Reputation, so Goes Student’s Interest

One indicator for the influence of a nation in the world is the number of people willing to devote their academic career to the studies of said nation. According to this measure, the future isn’t looking very bright for the United States, if you follow this article in Time magazine. Applications for American Studies have significantly dropped in Great Britain in the last years, even though regional studies are still in fashion.

source: UCAS

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The candidate

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