Word: bremen
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...enhance man's understanding of nature and reconcile theology with science in many ways. It can be shown that even in mathematics, the number of problems that can be formulated is indefinite. There are always questions left to be answered, and there is always room for God. PETER FISCHER Bremen, Germany Via E-mail...
...face- saving fuss over the allegedly terrible state in which these treasures had been found at the war's end. In fact, Schmidt's sources show, they were in "impeccable condition," in quarry tunnels and fortresses undamaged by the fighting. And Wolfgang Eichwede, of the Eastern Europe Institute at Bremen University, who has taken part in countless talks with Soviet officials to negotiate the return of works to Bremen, points out that the two sides approach the issue from drastically different perspectives: "While the Germans cite legal arguments, the Russians cite historical responsibility. While the Russians still have a great...
...belonged, in fact, to a German museum--the Kunsthalle in Bremen--and was part of a group of some 1,700 drawings, 50 paintings and 3,000 prints that had been squirreled away for safety in Schloss Karnzow. Baldin made a careful inventory of the drawings he had taken and arranged for their transfer to his future place of work, the Shusev State Scientific Research Museum of Architecture in Moscow. And there they remained, unseen, under wraps, for 45 years. When Baldin became director of the museum in 1963, he began to petition first Leonid Brezhnev and then Mikhail Gorbachev...
...buffer zone lying along the so-called Green Line which divides Cyprus into Greek and Turkish sectors Chrysanthou a film-maker and intellectual, is going to meet Kizilyurek, a boyhood friend who is now an editor of Turkish Cypriot literature and a political scientist associated with the University of Bremen. During his meeting with Chrysanthou Kizilyurek relates the difficulties that he encountered when customs officials discovered he carried three passports. The anecdote is a great symbol for the problematic nature of Cypriot identity...
...them. Since 1991, German police have counted 440 cases of nuclear smuggling, and almost all have been stings. With so many agents posing as buyers, some skeptical officials wonder if they might be creating a demand. "There's no evidence of a real market for plutonium in Germany," says Bremen's chief prosecutor. He wonders whether "our interest in pursuing criminals is bringing danger into Germany...