Veronika Oleksyn, an American-born freelance correspondent for Austria's Kurier daily, thought she had written as much as she could about Ron Paul's connection to Austria: He adheres to the Austrian School of economic thought, which espouses, among other things, reinstituting the gold standard and abolishing the central bank.

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School principal Carlo Cuomo has flown to Austria to escort the group home.

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The family considered itself fully assimilated, but after the Nazi annexation of Austria, in 1938, Mischel remembers being taunted in school by the Hitler Youth and watching as his father, hobbled by childhood polio, was forced to limp through the streets in his pajamas.

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Many of my friends are influenced by the Austrian school of economics (not the same as the economics of Austria).

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Colorado State is the first U.S. school to offer credit for a Udacity MOOC, but several universities in Germany and Austria already do.

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The U.S. already spends more on high school education than any advanced society except Switzerland and Norway, and considerably more than such egalitarian societies as Austria and Denmark.

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