Out with the parties, booze and junk food, in with weeks of intense dieting and gruelling exercise - not your typical student experience, but recently 27 undergraduates at one German design university gamely took up the challenge of obtaining a rippling six-pack - all in the name of art.
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Soul-searching in Europe this week as it asked: Can the continent afford its own IMF? How will Europe fare in its power struggle with Asia? And can Slovenia really make amends to the 20,000 citizens it has ignored for 20 years?
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Our latest report on equality finds us in Germany, where statistics show that women earn 23.2% less than their male colleagues - a figure over 5% higher than the European average. The EU has condemned the gap and 26 March will mark “Equal Pay Day” in Germany. But why are they so far behind?
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To start our series on gender equality, we head to Eastern Europe, where International Women's Day is grappling with an identity crisis. The 8 March holiday fell from favour in the Czech Republic because of its Communist overtones, but now women's groups are reclaiming it as their own.
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