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The Answers, part II: living in Germany, living in general, and kids

April 4, 2008

What is the best part about living in Germany? What is the hardest? The best part about living in Germany is probably the socialized medicine. You hear stories about illnesses making people bankrupt in the US, and I don’t have to worry at all about that here. If, God forbid, Oliver was autistic, or Rainer [...]

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How well do you know Europe?

September 27, 2007

I had the added challenge of doing this while holding a squirmy 2 month old – can you top that? *Courtesy of Cliff over at Regensblog Okay, this thing doesn’t seem to work on Blogger, but my score was something in the 27,000+ area.

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In The News: Religion, Diet, Racism, and Sport

September 16, 2006

Faith and Reason?During a recent speech at the University of Regensburg, Pope Benedict XVI made a comment that has inflamed the Muslim world. In a discussion about how faith and reason can coexist, he mentions a religious dialogue that took place between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and an educated Persian around 1391: In [...]

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Random thoughts

September 2, 2006

So Germany now has “Deal or No Deal”, an awful game show that I first experienced in the US over Christmas (maybe it’s just that I’m a statistician, so I can’t enjoy games of chance). Germany also has Quiz Taxi, but this may have preceded the US version, I’m not sure. Oh! But on the [...]

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Very Random Thoughts

July 10, 2006

I’ll post about the Final and stuff tomorrow, my thoughts are too random to put something constructive together today, so I’ll just give you some of the random tidbits floating around up there. Okay, one Final tidbit: Zidane is off my Sexy List. What the heck was he thinking? He’s a veteran, it’s his last [...]

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Arme England alles ist vorbei

July 1, 2006

In keeping with tradition, England has been knocked out of the World Cup by Portugal in a match decided by penalty kicks. This was really a heart-wrenching game. I was rooting for England to win it all, and the Portugese team should have been ejected after the extremely dirty game they played against Holland. But, [...]

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Saturday: Germany v. Sweden

June 20, 2006

Sweden and England just tied 2:2, with Trinidad and Tobago losing to Paraguay 2:0, meaning Sweden will play Germany in the Round of 16. In tonight’s game, England started out playing well, but in the second half Sweden came out very aggressively and wore down the English team. Rainer announced that he thinks Germany can [...]

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