History: Migration The ways immigration has shaped the American character

But I also suspect that the factors that have made America great--lots of hard-headed, independent, courageous, determined, borderline anti-social people from all over the world--may also be among the reasons that it's a pretty violent place. I guess it's true that you've got to take the bad with the good.
· Amerika, Amerika [IntantPundit]

Secret Police Hand Jobs

Members of the former East German secret police (Staatssicherheitsdienst or Stasi) have been accused of many things in the past. Never, though, have they been accused of lacking imagination or a talent for improvisation. Further proof of their skills in these areas is on display at the Stasi's former headquarters in Berlin in an exhibition that focuses on a little-known talent of the eavesdroppers and spies: Stasi members were great with their hands.
· Surveillance devices [FAZ- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]