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Dear email,
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Life has become so fast. The world’s turmoil is increasing. Everyone deals with the daily bad news in a different way. For me, when the weekend rolls around, I tune out and read mysteries. While I also enjoy, at times, dark Scandinavian noir, mostly I read cozy mysteries in which the cities they are set in play as much a role as any of the characters do. This relaxes me and inspires me with ideas on where to take a future vacation. I have a whole list of books or series of books that are good for this. Apparently, in Britain, there’s a word for my kind of relaxation. Below, you can find out what it is.
However, if reading is not your thing but travelling and adventures are, we also have an article on the iconic Route 66 in the American West. We also ask two experts whether, in today’s world, getting an MBA is really worth it.
Next week, my co-host Inez Sharp will have some more entertaining stories for you from around the English-speaking world.
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Judith Gilbert
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Editor-in-chief, Business Spotlight
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turmoil: Hektik, Unruhe | tune out: abschalten | mystery: hier: Krimi | cozy: gemĂĽtlich, kuschelig | be set in (a city): in (einer Stadt) spielen | apparently: anscheinend | iconic: kultig | MBA (Master of Business Administration): postgraduales Managementstudium, akademischer Grad eines MBA | co-host: Co-Moderator(in)
Note: Judith's editorial is written in US English.
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Word of the Week
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bibliotherapy
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Did you know...? This has become very popular in Britain in recent years and refers to giving someone a specific reading list that’s designed to support their mental health.
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reading list: Leseliste | designed: be ~ to do sth.: etw. tun sollen
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Quiz
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Mysteries
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1) Agatha Christie’s mysteries have sold better than:
A) the Bible and Shakespeare’s works
B) the Bible
C) any other book except the Bible and Shakespeare’s works
2) Which of these famous mystery authors is not British?
A) P. D. James
B) Val McDermid
C) Dan Brown
3) Mysteries are often called:
A) whodunnits
B) brain benders
C) who done its
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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| Answers: 1. C) Agatha Christie has sold 2 billion books, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare; 2. C); 3. A)
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Anzeige
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Win a business English course in Malta!
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With over 300 days of sunshine a year, a rich cultural heritage, and a thriving international business community, Malta is the ideal destination to upgrade your English and your career.
Take part in this competition and, with a bit of luck, you can win a one-week business English course on Malta, including accommodation and an airport transfer.
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rich: hier: prächtig, reichhaltig | heritage: Erbe | thriving: florierend
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© Image: VisitMalta
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In the Picture
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Finally free
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In 2024, the US removed four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River, completing the largest dam removal in history. Indigenous tribes that rely on the Klamath’s salmon and trout population for survival have been fighting to remove the dams for over a century.
To commemorate their victory, 43 indigenous teens from these tribes participated in the First Descent – a month-long kayak journey spanning the entire length of the more than 300-mile (482-kilometre) river, from southern Oregon to northern California – something that no one has done in the past 100 years since the dams were built.
Julian Rogers, a 16-year-old kayaker on the First Descent and a member of the Hoopa tribe, told Oregon Public Broadcasting: “Kayaking is a very cool part of this, but the First Descent isn’t about the kayaks. It’s about the century-long battle that my people have been fighting and is the start of a new beginning.”
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hydroelectric dam: hydroelektrischer Staudamm | indigenous tribe: indigener Volksstamm | salmon: Lachs | trout: Forelle | commemorate sth.: hier: etw. feiern | participate in sth.: an etw. teilnehmen | span sth.: sich ĂĽber etw. erstrecken
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© Image: Max Whittaker / The New York Times / Redux / laif
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Ihr Gutschein fĂĽr Business Spotlight
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Sie erhalten die erste Ausgabe unseres Abonnements gratis
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Travel
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Driving Route 66
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For many, Route 66 represents freedom. Referenced in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and sung of by Nat King Cole, Eagles and The Mamas & the Papas, among others, it’s the most famous highway in the US. Listen to travel writer James Draven speak to Spotlight editor Mae McCreary about the route in this audio interview.
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© Image: plainpicture / hasengold
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Profile
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Manager with a mission
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The Dutch chocolate brand Tony’s Chocolonely was created in 2005 with the goal of eliminating exploitation in the cocoa industry. Many cocoa farmers live below the poverty line, particularly in West Africa, where most cocoa comes from. The company’s current CEO is 51-year-old British manager Douglas Lamont, who was previously the head of the drinks brand Innocent. Lamont describes three steps to running a company with a social mission.
The first is to offer top quality. “If you want to change the world, you have to have a great product,” he told the website Raconteur. The second step is to commit to a goal, even if that means making counterintuitive business decisions. Tony’s created its Open Chain collaboration platform, through which anyone, even competitors, can buy ÂTony’s cocoa beans at cost price. “I’m the CEO of the mission, which is to end exploitation in cocoa,” he says. “I’m not the CEO of making Tony’s Chocolonely as big as it can be.”
Finally, it’s necessary to think beyond one’s own organization and build a community that governments must take seriously: “I’m only interested in change at scale.”
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exploitation: Ausbeutung | cocoa: Kakao | poverty line: Armutsgrenze | head: hier: Leiter(in), Direktor(in) | commit to sth.: sich auf etw. festlegen, sich etw. verschreiben | counterintuitive: im Gegensatz zur (eigenen) Intuition stehend | cost price: Selbstkostenpreis, Einkaufspreis | at scale: in der passenden Größenordnung, in großem Umfang
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© Image: Lumen Photo / VISUM
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Head-to-Head
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Is getting an MBA worth it?
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Do you think it’s more valuable to get practical experience, or learn from experts in a classroom? Read two different points-of-view on the topic of MBAs.
As a special gift, our newsletter subscribers can read the online version of the article for free – but only for a week!
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MBA (Master of Business Administration): postgraduales Managementstudium, akademischer Grad eines MBA | valuable: wertvoll | topic: Thema | subscriber: Abonnent(in)
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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Feel good about using AI
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Strategies to use AI at work | Can tax be fair? | Learning from Sweden’s start-ups | How to structure your presentations | Human resources vocabulary
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Quiz
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Idioms
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If someone tells you to “break a leg”, do you know what they mean? Test your knowledge of idioms in our fun language quiz!
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idiom: Redewendung
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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From the ZEIT SPRACHEN App
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It’s National Failures Day in the US today! 💩
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Post-it notes, Viagra and the light bulb were all once failed attempts. And today? They’re known the world over. Failing is part of the process. But how can you learn from failure? Discover how mistakes lead to progress.
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failed attempt: Fehlversuch
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© Image: Pia Spieler
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Mitarbeit: Dennis Draber, Judith Gilbert, Susanne Krause, Nadia Lawrence, Mae McCreary, Richard Mote, Rachel Preece, Inez Sharp.
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