Josef Fritzl, the man who haunts Austria
Independent - Austrians describe the pale grey, two-storey family home near the centre of this provincial town as the “house of horror”. It is not difficult to understand why. In its cramped cellar, 73-year-old Josef Fritzl held his own daughter prisoner, beat her and raped her, fathering seven children with her over a period that lasted nearly a quarter of a century.
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What Makes the Average German Tick?
Spiegel - What do Germans earn? How much do they drink? How loyal are they? How often do they lie? What do they believe in? What are they afraid of? How often do they have sex? How do they die? A new SPIEGEL report gives a unique picture of the average German and how they think, live and love.
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New boss at The Wall Street Journal
International Herald Tribune - News Corp., which is controlled by Murdoch and which last year bought The Journal’s parent company, Dow Jones, for close to $5 billion, would invest $6 million a year to add four new pages each day for international news.
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U.S. paper ends print edition to live online
International Herald Tribune - Last Saturday, The Capital Times, a fabled 90-year-old daily newspaper founded in response to the jingoist fervor of World War I, stopped printing to devote itself to publishing its daily report on the Web.
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Everybody out!
New Statesman - The workers are getting restless. Last year, for the second time in five years, more than a million days were lost to strikes. This year the figure is likely to be higher. Is this a return to the militant Seventies?
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Timeline of the universe
Guardian - Using observatories on the earth and in space, astronomers have been able to study the nature of the cosmos in unprecedented detail. By analysing the motion of distant galaxies, they have discovered that the whole cosmos is expanding under the influence of forces unleashed at its birth in the big bang. Combined with studies of the radiation left over from that primordial explosion, they have found that the universe was born 13.7bn years ago, give or take 200m years.
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The ancient traditions of Bushmills
BBC - It’s not just that the Irish spell the word with seven letters - whiskey - and the Scotch distillers with six - whisky. It is also evident in the distillation, the process that extracts the alcohol.
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In their own fanatical words
National Post, by Robert Fulford - It’s not easy to remember that terrorists, too, are in politics, with all the insecurity and ambition that implies. Certainly that’s true of the four famous Islamic killers, two of them dead, whose statements, distributed on the Web, fill Al Qaeda in Its Own Words (Harvard University Press), published this week.
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