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...hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigrés face. "People need to learn to forget about the way things were done at home," argues Birgit Krone, the head of the Baltic Training Center, which organizes language courses and job-coaching for unemployed Germans who want to apply for jobs in Scandinavia or the Netherlands. "They should be open to the corporate culture in the countries they move to," she advises, "because they will be expected...
...Future Store" designed to showcase and test interactive shopping technology. She was the star that day, but the shop's owner, German retail chain Metro AG, and its 39 partners in the venture - including the likes of Intel and SAP - are more interested in the response of people like Birgit Hüsken. She regularly uses the store's most prominent tool, the Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) - a cart-mounted computer that advertises sales as she moves from section to section and keeps a running total of purchases. A central computer ensures that the prices in the PSA sync with...
...handful of Scandinavians who are here, their greatest joy seemed to come from the fact that so many others were present and enjoying the celebration. As a person from Sweden, I was very surprised by how many people were interested in my culture, says Birgit P. I. Larsson...
...Birgit Larsson ’02 lost a power adapter, clothes, textbooks and papers that were on the floor...
...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...