Schmaltzy days are here again: the performing arts are awash with nostalgia in Germany and Austria

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Pre-Nazi era musicals such as the once-banned 'Threepenny Opera,' 'Hawaii Flower,' 'The White Horse Inn,' and Gilbert & Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance,' are drawing record crowds. Filmmaking is enjoying a renaissance, led by Volker Schlondorff's revival of the historic Babelsberg studios.

Germany, Influence, Theater companies, Popular culture, Motion pictures, German, German movies, Schlondorff, Volker

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Nine days: death in life (2)

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The case of Theresa Ann Pearson, a child born brainless in Florida, raised many legal and ethical questions. Her parents hoped to be able to donate her vital organs for other children, but Florida law prohibited it because the fact she was able to breathe meant she was alive.

Cases, Infants (Newborn), Newborn infants, Brain death, Anencephaly

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These days too few heed the call

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The US Roman catholic church faces a shortage of nuns and priests, and this affects charities, hospitals and schools, as well as churches themselves. The implcations of the shortage are assessed.

Social aspects, United States, Human resource management, Catholic Church, Catholic universities and colleges, Catholics in the United States, American Catholics

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