My grandchildren came over the other morning, and they turned on children's TV on PBS. This used to be a commercial-free zone, where kids could at least get a head start growing up in a healthy, noncommercial environment.

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Economists, previously unreserved in their opinion that business in Germany is growing at a healthy pace, are also unified in a concern that a contagion from a meltdown in the euro zone will reverse the gains that Germany has made in the last decade.

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