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Italy

game over

June 12, 2006

We got schooled Czech Republic won 3:0, dominating the USA every step of the way. Now the USA pretty much needs to beat Italy to advance to the next round. Italy plays Ghana in 20 minutes, we’ll see how they look, but it appears that the chances of the US advancing are now slim. Rainer [...]

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World Cup 2006 Fan Fest

June 8, 2006

Last night we went to the opening of the Berlin World Cup Fan Fest where I bought my very first American flag that I”ll be hanging out my window when the World Cup starts tomorrow. The Fan Fest is a huge street party that will take place throughout the World Cup and can be found [...]

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South Beach Diet and the low-carb craze

October 27, 2004

I just attended an interesting lecture on age trajectories of mortality. Since I’m now working at one of the world’s preeminent demographic research centers, I thought I would share some insights. Japan is the healthiest, most robust, oldest living population in the world, with Japanese women living an average of 85 years. The age expectancy [...]

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First Spain, now Italy and Poland

October 6, 2004

German news is reporting that the coalition in Iraq is breaking up (the article is in German, sorry, I couldn’t find an English report of this – I checked Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and BBC News – although CNN did report on Poland, see below). First it was Spain, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Now [...]

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Good Morning Rostock!

August 4, 2004

It’s a beautiful, sunny morning here in Rostock. There is a cool breeze and my thermometer says it is 34, but that is only because the morning sun hits it and it is completely useless. I guess it’s really around 20. It took a while for summer to come to Rostock, it’s only been here [...]

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