We need the highest skills for the future and we need to be seen as a creative hub of the world where all the talent of the world are able to descend upon us.

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This hardly means the world is about to descend into anarchy.

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For the next 17 days, more than six million normally prim and sober citizens from every country in the world will descend upon the Theresienwiese festival grounds (Wiesn, for short) to guzzle towering mugs of beer and engage in good cheer and outright debauchery.

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Visitors from around the world -- including celebrities, politicians and rabble-rousers -- descend on Louisville to enjoy everything from mint juleps on Millionaire's Row to mudslides in the Churchill Downs infield.

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The railway, too, starts to descend rapidly, repeating its routine of hairpin turns, before entering a world of meadows, orchards and vineyards.

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