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...wreckage of the U.S. enterprise in Iraq. But even there, stability is a relative term. True, the airport is putting in a runway long enough to accommodate jumbo jets, but for now it will be used mainly for U.S. military flights. That's because only one Western carrier-Austrian Airlines-is brave enough to land there. Other flights are run by off-brand charters with names such as Flying Carpet and Middle Eastern carriers such as Iraqi Airways. And even those are unreliable. Many of the officials at Iraqi Airways are former Baathists who try to gum up the works...
...Thankfully, Robert Austrian was never one to accept the presumed wisdom of his colleagues. After World War II, when doctors insisted that penicillin and other new antibiotics obviated the need for a vaccine to combat illnesses like pneumonia, Austrian turned this theory on its head. Convinced that certain bacteria were resistant to antibiotics--and aware that pneumonia was still killing thousands of people annually--he led a groundbreaking 10-year study of the issue at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. By its culmination in 1962, Austrian had persuaded the medical community of the continued need for a pneumococcal vaccine...
...VIENNA TO ERBIL Austrian Airlines opened Europe's first regular air connection to Iraq (Erbil is the Kurdish capital) in December. Austria's largest energy firm recently began negotiations on oil and gas exploration in Iraq
...book was called Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid--Gödel being the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel; Escher, the fantastical Dutch artist M.C. Escher; and Bach, the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The extraordinary mind that braided these three figures together in one book belonged to one Douglas Hofstadter, a physics Ph.D. who was only 34 years old at the time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for Gödel, Escher, Bach, and it went on to become a cult classic that influenced a generation of thinkers. Since then Hofstadter has published on numerous subjects...
Think of biodynamic as überorganic. The farming method is based on principles put forth in the 1920s by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Although Steiner is best known in the U.S. as the inspiration behind the Waldorf school movement, his unique blend of spiritual science touches on every aspect of humanity and its relation to the universe, especially agriculture and diet. Biodynamic farming thus combines organic practices--like the banning of pesticides and chemicals--with somewhat mystical ideas such as basing planting and harvesting schedules on the position of the moon, sun and stars. It's full of colorful details...