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About Michaela

I am a wanderer and a wonderer, like you are. I love our journey and to walk in the company of friends – to learn, experience, share, laugh, cry and above all I simply love this marvelous, magical, mysterious life. I have no plan (cannot believe I am saying this) and my only intention is to be truthful to myself and others.

Good drugs, bad drugs

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Michaela

By ABIGAIL ZUGER From heroin and cocaine to sex and lies, Tetris and the ponies, the spectrum of human addictions is vast. But for Dr. Nora D. Volkow, the neuroscientist in charge of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, they … Continue reading →

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Some kiss we want

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Michaela

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the … Continue reading →

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Fast Food, Fat Profits

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Michaela

One out of every three Americans is obese, but food revolutions are underway and some are fighting back.

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When Food Kills

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Michaela

By Nicholas D Kristoff The deaths of 31 people in Europe from a little-known strain of E. coli have raised alarms worldwide, but we shouldn’t be surprised. Our food often betrays us. Just a few days ago, a 2-year-old girl in Dryden, Va., died … Continue reading →

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Kill Bill: The sabotage of US finance reform

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Michaela

By Danny Schechter Some years back Thomas Frank nailed it in his book, The Wrecking Crew. It was subtitled “How Conservatives Rule” and showed how narrow self-interest and well practiced cynicism in the service of partisan warfare has crippled our … Continue reading →

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The Snowball

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Michaela

By Kenneth Rogoff Europe is in constitutional crisis. No one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries’ debt crisis. Instead of restructuring the manifestly unsustainable debt burdens of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece (the PIGs), … Continue reading →

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Everything happens simultaneously

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Michaela

I keep thinking how much the current events in the Middle East remind me of … Lawrence of Arabia

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Politics and Expertise

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Michaela

By Peter A Diamond Last  October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to … Continue reading →

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The Beauty of Form

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Michaela

 

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Pictures of an Exhibition

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Michaela

Modest Mussorgsky “Pictures of an Exhibition” Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Valery Gergiev From an open air concert June 6, 2011 at Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna

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