Ernst is fifty years old, a native German who received his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg before training in pulmonary and critical-care medicine in the United States.

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If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

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The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a German woman died while walking in 40-degree temperatures in Cape Otway, Victoria.

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The cape has since come to symbolize his rejection of the trappings of the papacy and to some degree the pontificate of Benedict XVI, since the German pontiff relished in resurrecting many of the liturgical vestments of his predecessors.

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In his redesign of the Reichstag, the seat of German government in Berlin, Foster has carried this out to an extraordinary degree.

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After obtaining her undergraduate degree in French and French literature, Oh, 28, worked for German auto company Henkel Korea as an interpreting secretary.

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German efficiency and once-matchless engineering can reduce that differential and justify higher prices, but only to a degree.

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