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-- REVIEW --
'Fringe':
Bizarre, but enjoyable
By Caroline Nelissen in ERMELO, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Science fiction comes in all shapes and sizes, some even
more incomprehensible than others. Fox’s Fringe,
set to return on April 1, is surprisingly accessible –
even when you’re not big on the sci-fi genre.
In this show from J.J. Abrams, who also made Lost, the
so-called Fringe Division of the FBI investigates cases that are
not your everyday crimes. Each episode starts off with some sort
of inexplicable event, which has usually resulted in gruesomely
disfigured victims.
All these events are part of ‘The Pattern,’ a series of strange,
inexplicable occurrences around the world that are almost always
traced back to a powerful corporation called Massive Dynamic.
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Fun and Games
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-- NEWS --
Deadly panic leaves no way out at Love
Parade festival
Maya Argaman/youthjournalism.org
By Katie Grosser in
Münster,
Germany
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Partying at the Love Parade festival Saturday in Duisburg,
Germany, Maya Argaman had no idea that not far from her, others
in the audience were dying when the crowd stampeded.
In the outbreak of mass hysteria, the crowd trampled each other,
crushing 19 to death and injuring more than 300, leaving Germans
throughout the country in a state of shock and dismay.
“The festival site was higher up and we didn’t have a view of
the tunnel,” where most of the people died, said Argaman, 20, of
Essen.
Most of the crowd at the festival was also clueless.
“There was no announcement, no official information. I got a
text from my mother, but we weren’t aware of the magnitude of
what had happened, so we kept on partying,” said Argaman.
“Everyone just kept on partying.”
What should have been a day of music, dancing and fun – a
celebration of love and peace – turned into a tragedy and
sparked an investigation into how such a catastrophe could
happen.
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-- OPINION --
Love Parade tragedy proves safety should be priority
By Katie Grosser in
Münster,
Germany
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What happened at the Love Parade festival in Duisburg on
Saturday is a tragedy. The deaths of 19 and over 300
more injured shocked a whole nation and will dominate
the news in the upcoming days and weeks. But what makes
this tragedy especially bitter is the fact that not far
away from where people were being crushed to death,
others who were unaware of what was happening just kept
on partying in a grotesque clash of life and death.
The other fact
which sheds a whole new light onto the catastrophe is that with a better
security plan and a faster reaction on behalf of the police and the staffers on
the site, all these deaths might have been prevented. That is what makes a
tragedy into a scandal.
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Final resting place
By Caroline Nelissen in ERMELO, Gelderland, Netherlands
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They’re a silent testimony of lives once lived. Anything but untouched by time,
yet carrying the impression of being timeless and unchanging.
The two old cemeteries of the Veldwijk psychiatric hospital in
Ermelo provide a fascinating glimpse into history.
The first funeral took place in August 1887 at the so-called
‘Old Cemetery.’ In 1906, the ‘New Cemetery’ was taken into use,
having its first funeral in 1908.
Some rather well-known people are buried at those graveyards,
the most expressive example probably being Willemina van Gogh,
sister of famous painter Vincent van Gogh.
The larger New Cemetery is much better kept, still looking much
more like a cemetery, with recognizable lanes and different
sections. Its weather-beaten gravestones of loved ones long
forgotten provide an illustration of the unrelenting passing of
time.
Situated in the middle of the woods, there’s an incredible sense
of peace and serenity. There’s no one around. People are cycling
or walking at the paths nearby, but the graveyard itself is
pretty much deserted. A small rabbit quickly crosses the path
between two rows of graves and the only sounds are those of
birds hopping through dry leafs. They’re signs of blooming life
in this territory of the dead.
At the Old Cemetery, dilapidation is even more evident.
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