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...in a lively neighbourhood (Hufelandstrasse 20; 4193 5081; www.spreegold.com). Oranium ££ In an interesting part of central Berlin, a beautiful place with good food and an excellent vantage point for people-watching (Oranienburgerstr 33/34; 882967; www.oranium.de)....
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/berlin/8238761/Berlin-flights-sights-hotels-and-restaurants.html
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...An additional Airbus A 330-200 will be stationed in Berlin to operate these new flights. Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin, said, "An attractive range of flights is a decisive advantage in terms of location, and this is true for every region. Air Berlin's...
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AME Info
http://www.ameinfo.com/231889.html
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...or no less than building a small city," said Ralf Kunkel, spokesman for Berlin Airports. Pia Wedel, 34, who grew up in West Berlin, opposed closing Tempelhof Airport, but supports the new airport. "I think that it is a must, because it's what suits a big city,"...
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The Scotsman
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/topstories/25bn-airport-carries-Berlin39s-hopes.6137341.jp
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BERLIN -- Martin Scorsese's thriller "Shutter Island" starring
Leonardo DiCaprio and Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" featuring
Ewen McGreggor and Pierce Brosnan will have their world premieres
in Berlin.
"Shutter Island" will screen out of
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Hollywood Reporter
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Air Berlin, Germany's second largest airline services are offering on all their routes along with a wealth of Products and Services to ensure your comfort. Air Berlin provides an all-round service and you can enjoy the world class service at an
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FareBuzz
http://www.farebuzz.com/blog/post/2009/12/02/Air-Berlin-Cheap-Business-Class-Travel.aspx
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Two years ago in this space, I described a visit I had just made to Berlin in which I wrote, “My trip to Berlin with my wife, Ludie, brings back memories of previous visits to this city when the hated Berlin Wall was still in place.”
This week, as
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Lahontan Valley News & Fallen Eagle Standard
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20091112/NEWS/911129976/-1/rss01
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BERLIN -- Ulrich Sauff and his wife stared at the mammoth domino pieces marking the path where the Berlin Wall once stood and reminisced about life in the barrier's shadow.
"It was like a prison," said Sauff, 73, who lived on the Western side of the
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Kentucky.com
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The French president suggests — in a casual post on his Facebook page — that he was at Checkpoint Charlie, chipping away at the Cold War with a pickax alonside throngs of Berliners on Nov. 9, 1989.
French journalists aren't so sure. They question his
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Simple Thoughts
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/skeptics-question-french-president-sarkozys-facebook-post-suggesting-he-saw-berlin-wall-fall/
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Tourists gather along the former route of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany.
"Berlin feels like the nuclear fuel rod of a great nation," says Rick Steves
The crush of tourists makes parts of the new Berlin tacky, he
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_travel/~3/1sUdvau4NhM/index.html
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The euphoria and jubilation as east German residents broke down the wall that had divided the country for decades. Follow us on twitter at http://twitter...
Video: The Berlin Wall Comes Down
Weekly Standard Blog —
"Twenty years ago, on November 9,
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Beltway Blips
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Nov. 8: A giant photograph of the Fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 hangs at a television studio in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
BERLIN Germans from both sides of the former Berlin Wall celebrated on Monday, 20 years after the Iron
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FOX News
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Berlin’s great social scene, world beating art galleries and the confident, yet welcoming people make Berlin an exciting place to visit. realbuzz’s city guide to Berlin will make sure you get the most out of your visit to Berlin.
Of all the cities in
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Real Buzz
http://realbuzz.com/articles/berlin-city-guide/
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...dismantled Berlin Wall into West Berlin at Potsdamer Platz Berlin Wall_This Nov. 11, 1989 file photo shows East German border guards looking through a hole in the Berlin wall after demonstrators pulled down one segment of the wall at Brandenburg gate. ...
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The Seferm Post
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FILE - This Nov. 12, 1989 file photo shows a man hammering at the Berlin Wall, as the border barrier between East and West Germany was torn down after 28 years. Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. (AP Photo/Joh
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Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/9/20-years-after-the-berlin-walls-fall/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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BERLIN -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Europeans and Americans on Sunday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to action against new global threats. On the eve of celebrations marking 20 years since the
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/1323386.html
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A recurring question from tourists in West Berlin not only back in the day but also these days is: "Where is the wall?"
The answer was easy when the nearly impenetrable barrier not only divided West Berlin from East Berlin but also became the
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NewsMax
http://www.Newsmax.com/headlines/reagan_berlin_wall_soviet/2009/11/08/283397.html
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...drinks. Strangers kissed and toasted each other with champagne. Klaus-Hubert Fugger, a student at the Free University in West Berlin, was having drinks at a pub when people began coming "who looked a bit different." Customers bought the visitors round after...
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ReadingEagle.com
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Twenty years ago, I was a bearded little Dorothy going through a "Wizard of Oz" moment, only in reverse.
In October 1989, I passed through Checkpoint Charlie and stepped from the Technicolor world of West Berlin, with all its blue neon theater signs,
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The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/travel/-216134--.html
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A chill wind is blowing through Mitte, the once drab district in central Berlin that is fast becoming hangout central for the world's creative types. Davide Grazioli, used to warmer climes, pulls his black woolly hat over his head and strides up
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Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1934459,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular
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guns mounted up top on their Humvees. We'd stop at aging wooden platforms to scamper up for a look across the Wall. Our guys with binoculars looking at their guys with binoculars. The Wall was slathered along its western side with brilliant swirls of
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TwinCities.com
http://www.twincities.com/travel/ci_13722107?source=rss
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The Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, but few of the news stories marking the anniversary have explained the event's full significance. The Cold War had been raging for a quarter-century before the wall went up on Aug. 13, 1961. How could its
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Slate
http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=01eecdec309f5ed84912552475681f24
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Walls come tumbling down: East German citizens climb the Berlin Wall at the Brandeburg Gate on November 10, 1989. Reuters
The East German
Hartmut Richter, 61, witnessed the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 and its fall in 1989, and still sheds
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The National Newspaper
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091107/FOREIGN/711069798/1013/rss
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On November 9 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. People from East Berlin flocked to West Berlin, and were enthusiastically received and celebrated. Berlin was partying. It began on a cold November evening and went on all night.
Of course the Wall
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Mail & Guardian Online
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-11-06-all-wall-down
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Paul van Dyk says his hometown of Berlin is open-minded and cosmopolitanA division still exists between West and East despite the Wall coming down, he saysThe DJ says the city has a lot of "chill-out space" helped by its many parks If it was a person
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/dBO5Ixn2bUo/index.html
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The MTV European Music Awards (EMAs) are coming to the German capital with an international cast, featuring performances by U2, the Foo Fighters, Shakira and Leona Lewis.
Berlin is the only city to host the awards show twice, in 1994 and on Thursday -
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Variety
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/variety/news/international/~3/bjfrd8HUjGE/VR1118010737
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Twenty years after the Berlin Wall fell, a TV documentary looks at its impact from Welsh and German perspectives. Emily Lambert talks reunification with filmmaker Ifor ap Glyn
ON November 9, 1989, the world looked on in amazement as the Berlin Wall
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Wales Online
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/television-in-wales/2009/10/31/beyond-the-berlin-wall-91466-25044973/
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Colourful past ... the East Side Gallery section of the Berlin Wall.
In the shadow of the wall, Leisa Tyler sleeps in former KGB offices and discovers cafes, galleries and museums.
November 9 marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Still
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The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/travel/24-hours-in-berlin-20091029-hn2q.html
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Red Berlin: My choices of where to sleep, eat, and shop. Plus, what to read and watch
Hotels: Westin Grand Berlin. Built in the late 1980s as the first Western-quality hotel in East Berlin. It has a great location for visiting nearby museums. Rates
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The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/travel/places-216203-berlin-shop.html
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My choices for the dozen most intriguing communism-related sites in Berlin:
DDR Museum: A small new museum on the banks of the Spree River, the museum plays to the "Ostalgia" of Germans by being heavy on cultural and social artifacts and light on
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The Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/travel/-216200--.html
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BERLIN (JTA) -- All its physical traces are gone, but the Jewish DP camp in Schlachtensee is not forgotten.
Sixty-one years since this and the other two such camps here were shut down, a filmmaker has gathered stories of those who passed through on
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JTA
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/21/1008649/from-hell-to-hope-inside-berlins-postwar-jewish-dp-camps
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When asked how the Art Forum in Berlin went, many of the gallerists sounded a lot like politicians: upbeat. On the whole the fair was "really good", the atmosphere was great, many "good discussions" were held and "good contacts were
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Spiegel Online
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,652084,00.html#ref=rss
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By Daniel Schwammenthal Berlin One widespread myth about the Mideast conflict is that the Arabs are paying the price for Germany's sins. The notion that the Palestinians are the "second victims" of the Holocaust contains two falsehoods: It suggests
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400532495168894.html?mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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Irene C. Hallman, age 80, of Berlin, died peacefully surrounded by her family and under the care of the Hospice Hope on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, at the American House of Berlin, where she resided for a short time. She was born on December 22, 1928,
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The Oshkosh Northwestern
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20090923/OSH0101/90923143/1128&located=rss
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, USF is hosting a premiere of the German film, “One, Two, Three” today.
The film, directed by Billy Wilder, will be shown at 3:45 p.m. in the Grace Allen Room on the fourth floor of the
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The USF Oracle
http://www.usforacle.com/usf-remembers-fall-of-berlin-wall-1.1909589
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2009) In mice that are missing a protein found only in the brain, neural signals "go crazy," leaving the animals with epileptic seizures from a young age, researchers have found. The report in the September 18th Cell, a Cell
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Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090917131544.htm
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
DEREK SCALLY
ON A BALMY summer evening in Berlin, Imogen Stuart walks down a street drinking in the familiar, urban atmosphere.
When she was born here 82 years ago, no one could have foreseen the storm of fascism that would
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Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0822/1224253069252.html
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The Street and Urbanwear trade show, which took place from 01- 03 July, 2009 in Berlin, ended last Friday with a brilliant result. The return of BREAD & BUTTER to its hometown under the motto BERLIN, BERLIN, BREAD & BUTTER, BERLIN was a complete
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Fibre2Fashion.com
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/fashion-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=75647
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One doesn’t have to go far in Berlin to see the work of Nazi designers, architects, and planners. Much of it is monumental and horrible. The problem arises when you confront the fact that they could also create beauty.
I’m generally suspicious of
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Counterpunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/yearsley07312009.html
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Matt Tegenkamp Runs 13:07 for 5000 - and Gets Evan Jager a Ticket to Berlin
This takes a bit of explaining. Tegenkamp, Chris Solinsky, and Evan Jager, three Oregon-based athletes coached by Jerry Schumacher, swept the top three spots in the men's 5000
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Runner's World
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RwDailyNews/~3/f0b8LsezebI/july-20.html
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...offering last year owing to choppy financial market conditions, but is gearing up for another shot in 2011, according to the Berliner Zeitung daily. And it is not just the 1.3 million commuters regularly using the S-Bahn who will suffer. Berlin is a center...
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eTaiwan News
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1007800&lang=eng_news&cate_img=35.jpg&cate_rss=news_Business_WORLD
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Berlin's regional train network, plunged into chaos in recent weeks by safety problems, may not return to normal until December, an official said, threatening misery for commuters, tourists and visitors to the World Athletics Championships in
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eTaiwan News
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1007800&lang=eng_news&cate_img=35.jpg&cate_rss=news_Business_WORLD
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...the 500,000 fans expected in Berlin for the games, which start on August 15. On top of this, S-Bahn trains to and from one of Berlin’s two main airports -- Schoenefeld -- will also be affected. While there are alternative means to get to all these destinations,...
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Hindustan Times
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...B.Z. newspaper reports without citing sources that the deal calls for Knut to remain permanently in the capital, with the Berlin zoo paying Neumuenster euro430,000 ($600,000). In May, Berlin offered euro350,000 and Neumuenster sought euro700,000. Polar bear...
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Eyewitness News Memphis
http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com:80/news/world/story/Berlin-zoo-Knut-money-dispute-settled/YHl2fpR4NkKKW5z9usQHXg.cspx?rss=62
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...Air Berlin, the second largest airline in Germany, will operate a new overnight flight, Berlin-Israel, commencing tonight, Tuesday. The inaugural flight, which leaves Berlin at 22:40 local time, will land Wednesday July 8 at 03:25 local time to a festive reception. Air...
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Arutz Sheva
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167592
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...Reuters and a few other places and she secured me some work. So now I had an extra reason to go. Other than the obvious that Berlin has become one of those creative meccas you always here about but are a little suspicious as to whether or not they exist. So...
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MyItThings
http://myitthings.com/Katya01/Post/fashion/It-Thing/Berlin-Fashion-Week-Diary:-Intro/23712009132866002.htm
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...to grab attention by highlighting young designers who struggle to get noticed in New York, Milan or Paris. Other big names in Berlin include German fashion houses Escada and Hugo Boss. Schumacher's appearance at the shows for spring and summer 2010 was her...
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Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/07/01/berlin_fashion_week_opens_with_schumacher?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
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...former Tempelhof airport in Berlin, where preparations for the Bread & Butter fashion fair are underway. BERLIN | This week, Berlin’s in-development cutting-edge fashion scene gets a major boost. After four years in Barcelona, Bread & Butter, the world’s...
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New York Times Travel
http://globespotters.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/a-berlin-landmark-gets-a-fashion-makeover/
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...Berlin 09: Norwegian designers Fantastic Norway have sent photos of Walking Berlin, a project in which they dressed up as their latest building and walked around Berlin. The event took place at DMY Berlin earlier this month and featured members of Fantastic...
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dezeen
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BERLIN -- Organizers of the Popkomm music fair and conference in
Berlin have admitted that an anticipated 50% fall in attendance
meant the 2009 event, due to take place Sept. 16-18, was no longer
viable this year.
Failure by the German government to
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Hollywood Reporter
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...Europe & Russia, Enterprise Mobility Solutions, Motorola GmbH. “It is a good basis for cooperation with the Federal State of Berlin in the coming years.” The services stipulated in the framework agreement comprise hands-on training sessions run by Motorola...
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Taume
http://news.taume.com/World-Business/Business-Finance/Motorola-Wins-Second-TETRA-Terminal-Tender-in-Berlin-10841
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