Our intrepid reporter signs up for a new course taught by homeless people in the Polish city of Lodz for those who want to learn how to lives on the streets.
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In Poland, after criticism of the treatment of asylum seekers, the government has responded with some very practical training for those who come face-to-face with immigrants every day.
WARSAW – Children’s education used to be in hands of educated women – for whom it was the only way to make a living – or less well-off students. Many famous writers and scientists have held this position at some point in their life. The governess may seem like a thing of the past, but […]
LONDON – Police are investigating complaints about a British National Party (BNP) election leaflet depicting Polish people as monkeys campaigning for the Labor Party. This is just one of several recent controversies involving the BNP, an assortment of neo-fascists, nationalists and xenophobes, whose members have been accused of verbal and physical attacks against ethnic and […]
Neil Harbisson was colorblind, until he strapped on an “eyeborg” and connected his mind’s vision to what he was hearing.
Every drive a SpinCar or ride an IzzyBike? You probably never will, since both have been unable to raise funds necessary to go to production. The trouble today with *heavy* startups.
LA STAMPA (Italy) Worldcrunch VATICAN CITY – The canonization of Pope John Paul II could be celebrated as soon as October, writes La Stampa, as Vatican sources say a presumed miracle has been approved by Church doctors. The beloved Polish pontiff, who died in April 2005, is on his way to sainthood in record time. […]
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Embalming 101, With A Polish Master
WARSAW – Plasdopake is produced in Whitchurch, Hampshire, a small town 90 kilometers west of London. Plasdopake is a chemical solution that contains 18% formaldehyde. It is perfect for embalming the bodies of people who have died young – it gives them a fresh and natural look, making them look alive in their coffin. Obviously, […]
Some members of the hierarchy of the Polish Catholic Church seem to have troubled practicing what the new pontiff preaches.
-Essay- WARSAW – When a group of Polish intellectuals, priests and politicians signed a petition for Polish humanitarian assistance to Syria, all hell broke loose on the Internet. The Polska Akcja Humanitarna (Polish Humanitarian Aid) petition — signed by former presidents Lech Walesa and Aleksander Kwasniewski; former Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski and Archbishop of Krakow […]
When a crooked system is allowed to fester, there are few who are free of blame — and little chance we will remained unscathed. A view from the European Union’s eastern front.
BYTOM – In this desolate coal-mining town in southern Poland, every fifth resident is unemployed. You can see the impact of mining on the surroundings in this rugged region of Silesia: damaged buildings and streets, and the remains of industrial structures. Many of Bytom’s store and home windows are boarded up or covered in bricks. […]
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How To Make Poland A Truly Modern Nation
-Essay- WARSAW – Poland has always lacked capital for important investments. The roads have always been bad, muddy, full of ruts and potholes. We have great universities, but they are woefully underfunded. In Poland there have always been “islands of modernity in a sea of backwardness,” according to economic historian Witold Kula. In this sense, […]
A Polish reporter in London finds out for herself.
Documents reveal how American intelligence officers turned a secret training center for Polish security forces into one of the controversial “black site” prisons for terrorism suspects.
A reversal in direction of the traditional route of remittance payments – now family members in Turkey are sending money to relatives in Germany.
OpEd: Same-sex civil unions have been defeated in Poland’s Parliament, thanks to a hard-right minority inside the ruling party. History tells us this will not stand.
TURIN – It may not be wartime, but the economic crisis is changing basic facts of life. And in some cases, changing them backward in time. One notable change is that Italian women are rediscovering jobs as domestic helpers (housecleaners and care givers), that had been taken over in recent years by a virtual labor […]
THE WARSAW VOICE (Poland), JTA (USA) Worldcrunch WARSAW – Squeeze inside, what is being dubbed the “narrowest house in the world” has officialy been opened in Poland’s capital, reports the Warsaw Voice. The two-story aluminum and plastic buiilding has a floor area of 14 square meters (150.70 sq feet) and measures 92 centimeters (3.02 ft) […]
EURONEWS, THE WARSAW VOICE Worldcrunch Poland is launching major clean-up operations on Monday after summer tornadoes ripped through the country over the weekend, killing one man and wounding ten others. Weather forecasts point to more storms in the coming days as 1,200 rescue workers work to remove fallen trees. Euronews reports that the Baltic region […]
Western European employers had hoped for a flood of new qualified workers from the new E.U. member states of Eastern Europe. And though requests jumped as soon as the last barriers were lifted, more and more from Poland and elsewhere are deciding to stay
Fifteen months after losing its president in a tragic plane crash, Poland takes stock of its past — recent and not-so-recent — and looks to a future that is once again charged with a sense of opportunity for a nation still looking to fulfil its potentia
Polish authorities are giving an enthusiastic thumbs-up to shale gas, a controversial yet potentially lucrative source of fuel that could free the country from relying on historical rival Russia for its gas needs.
Newly released Communist-era files show a complicated relationship between the Polish regime and the Wunderkind French-Polish filmmaker, from his first success to his escape from Hollywood after having sex with a minor.
The kitsch that accompanied John Paul in life and in death is in full force ahead of Sunday’s ceremony that puts him on the road to Sainthood. Are the faithful really just devoted fans?
With 2.5 million expected for the beloved Pope’s beatification, hotel prices start to soar and the Vatican warns against price gouging the pilgrims. Papal keepsakes (Radio Nederland) VATICAN CITY – As Rome braces for a massive influx of pilgrims for the May 1 beatification of the late Pope John Paul II, hotels in the Eternal […]
Whether in Elbląg, Olsztyn or Kaliningrad, city centers throughout East Prussia are being reinvented with modern interpretations of historical architecture. central Olsztyn By 1980, even as post-modernism was just taking root, German architects had already declared it dead. German architectural historian Heinrich Klotz’s “The Belling Stags of Architecture: Kitsch in Modern Building Art” and his […]