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From the gloom of this year's I.U.C.N. Red List of Threatened Species emerges one point of light: the Bavarian pine vole. Previously declared to be extinct, this humble rodent is in fact alive and well and living - not in Bavaria as you'd expect, but in Northern Tyrol. (The Lord Howe Island stick insect, last seen on its Australian island home in 1920, is the only other species to have been rediscovered after being classified as extinct.) The pine vole hadn't been spotted since 1962 but two years ago, a group of the rodents popped up across...
...Western leader for whom the Iraq issue has been a political windfall is Gerhard Schroder. The German Chancellor, up for re-election when Germans go to the polls this Sunday, was far behind his conservative opponent, Edmund Stoiber, premier of the state of Bavaria, who had made a chief issue of the country's economic woes. Schroder has closed the gap in the past month and last week even edged past Stoiber for the first time in the eight-month campaign. One reason for Schroder's turnaround is his smooth performance as a crisis manager. When eastern Germany was inundated...
...killing at least 100 people and causing billions of dollars' worth of damage to buildings, infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake blanketed the Eferdinger Basin, an agricultural area west of Linz, and at least seven people died. In Germany, large tracts of Saxony and Bavaria - including much of Dresden - were submerged, with about a dozen people killed. And in Russia, flash floods and tornadoes along the Black Sea coast razed homes and businesses and killed dozens, many of them holidaymakers. It was the wildest flooding to hit the region in more than a century...
...vote (compared with 6.2% in 1998). One reason for this is the FDP's image as &(e)acute;litist. In the current campaign, for example, the party says it favors repeal of Germany's strong law against wrongful dismissal, a proposal that even Stoiber, the conservative premier of Bavaria, is against. Complicating the FDP's outlook is an embarrassing controversy over anti-Semitism. J?rgen Möllemann, the party's deputy national leader, warned that prominent Jewish opposition to criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might be "liable to awaken anti-Semitic resentments." The comment caused an uproar because...
...state of Baden-Württemberg, home to carmakers DaimlerChrysler and Porsche, and also in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg, where many new businesses have been started in the former East Germany. The last strike by IG Metall was in 1995 and affected only workers in prosperous Bavaria for three weeks. What's so unusual about this year's negotiations is that the two sides were remarkably close when talks broke down. Employers had offered a 3.3% pay rise over 15 months; the union demanded 4% for this year. Putting heat on the metalworkers, the chemical workers' union...