Word: birgit
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...what eyes! Peering through a microscope at a twisted-wing male, Cornell neurobiologists Elke Buschbeck, Birgit Ehmer and Ron Hoy were struck by the unusually large lens facets in X. peckii's eyes. The compound eyes of most insects have hundreds of much smaller facets. Each focuses on a handful of photo receptors and produces only a single point in the insect's visual field. But the researchers, reporting last week in the journal Science, found that each of X. peckii's 100 eyelets is really a complete eye with its own retina, consisting of some 100 receptors, that samples...
...first glance, Stefan and Birgit Wilhelmi's story seems routine. A thirtysomething couple with an infertility problem, the Wilhelmis decided to adopt a child. Certified in 1992 as fit to be parents, they signed with a private Pennsylvania agency called the Option of Adoption. In January 1993 the agency called to say that a nine-month-old baby named Traymont was available. Ten days later, the Wilhelmis took the child home. No heart-searing dramas followed: Traymont's birth parents did not try to reclaim custody; previously unidentified relatives did not surface to contest the adoption. Encouraged by the ease...
...first it looked like nothing more than a violent spasm in the 23-year-long war between Germany's Red Army Faction terrorists and the government. On June 27, operatives belonging to GSG-9, the country's antiterrorist unit, attempted to arrest suspects Wolfgang Grams, 40, and his girlfriend Birgit Hogefeld, 37, at the train station in Bad Kleinen, a small town in eastern Germany. Officials reported that as police closed in, Grams pulled a pistol, killed an officer and was then gunned down in the brief shootout that followed...
Each voice is as unique as a fingerprint, and the whole aural setup is not exactly fair. An artist like Freni yearns to play grand heroines like Norma or La Gioconda but must obey the dictates of her two vocal cords. Yet Birgit Nilsson could prevail over waves of punishing orchestration for hours. Her explanation: "I was a healthy girl with a healthy voice...