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	Oberbaumbrücke

mona

6-2-2007 2:00 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/12d56b9d-ec15-441c-b74e-c3bf9f44d84d/01307697-A81E-4F42-A71A-D8969F845F10/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberbaumbr%C3%BCcke&oldid=127001882" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberbaumbr%C3%BCcke&oldid=127001882" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberbaumbr%C3%BCcke&oldid=127001882">Oberbaumbrücke</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberbaumbr%C3%BCcke&oldid=127001882">The <B>Oberbaumbrücke</B> is a double-deck bridge crossing <A title="Berlin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" linkindex="5" set="yes">Berlin</A>'s <A title="River Spree" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Spree" linkindex="6" set="yes">River Spree</A>, considered one of the city <A title="Landmark" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmark" linkindex="7">landmarks</A>. It links <A title="Friedrichshain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichshain" linkindex="8" set="yes">Friedrichshain</A> and <A title="Kreuzberg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberg" linkindex="9">Kreuzberg</A>, former city districts that were divided by the <A title="Berlin Wall" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall" linkindex="10" set="yes">Berlin Wall</A>, and has become an important symbol of Berlin’s unity.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberbaumbr%C3%BCcke&oldid=127001882"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/8079A2E3-34D2-48B2-BE7B-2D8A166C7842" alt="An U-Bahn train crosses the Oberbaumbrücke" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oberbaumbr%C3%BCcke&oldid=127001882"><P>Since 1997, a <A title="Neon lamp" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_lamp" linkindex="41">neon</A> <A title="Installation art" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art" linkindex="42">installation</A> entitled "Stone - Paper - Scissors" by <A title="Thorsten Goldberg" class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thorsten_Goldberg&action=edit" linkindex="43">Thorsten Goldberg</A> has adorned the bridge. Its two elements are engaged in a constant game of <A title="Rock, paper, scissors" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%2C_paper%2C_scissors" linkindex="44">rock, paper, scissors</A>, suggesting the arbitrariness of immigration decisions, both during the Cold War and for today's asylum seekers and poverty migrants.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/01307697-A81E-4F42-A71A-D8969F845F10/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>