taken from the wall street journal market watch

German Universities Ranked Third Worldwide as Destination for Foreign Students

WASHINGTON, Aug 28, 2008
Germany attracted 246,000 international students in 2007, outranked only by the United States (590,200) and Great Britain (318,400), according to the 2008 edition of the survey "Wissenschaft - ( Read more... )

for those of you who are interested in random pictures of germany, 
check out these lj comms:

http://community.livejournal.com/germany_in_pix/
http://community.livejournal.com/foto_europe/tag/germany

i just came across them again so i thought i'd share.

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any hessians in the house?
my father is one so this old hymn is still very catchy to me. ;]

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i just saw a giant lj post on 'germany's next top model' in another community and thought some of you may be interested. contains 9 you tube videos of the show, most of them with english subtitles for those who need them.

http://community.livejournal.com/topmodel/2087164.html

so i was cruising wiki once again looking for something in particular and something told me that this community might appreciate these pages on german literature and novelists ( Read more... )

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i guess you've all seen post secret's english version by now but have you seen the german one? i find the format a little weird but maybe they will change it as the site grows.

http://www.postsecretdeutsch.de/