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...week's end the sketch had produced no arrests. Danish police briefly detained two Yugoslavs after they crossed from Sweden to Denmark on a ferry, then released them. Commissioner Holmer revealed at a midweek news conference that his officers had followed up on 4,000 leads and interviewed 600 people. He also announced that the 120-officer team investigating the case was being expanded to 300, and that the police were offering an unprecedented $70,000 reward for information leading to the assassin's conviction. Said Holmer: "This is a murder that cannot be compared to any other...
...Isak Dinesen's Africa (Sierra Club; 142 pages; $35), an enticing blend of passages from the memoirs that inspired the film and photographs that powerfully evoke the countryside. Baroness Karen Blixen lived from 1913 to 1931 in the highlands of what is now Kenya, then returned to Denmark, where under the pen name Isak Dinesen she recalled her former home in prose as direct and luminous as the land: "Mombasa has all the look of a picture of Paradise, painted by a small child . . . Once as we turned a corner in the forest, we saw a leopard sitting...
...genetic factors in producing differences in IQ scores. The two professors have jointly taught a course on crime at Harvard since 1977. Says Wilson: "There is overwhelming evidence first that crime runs in families and second that early childhood precursors of crime seem clear." One study of adoptions in Denmark from 1924 to 1947 found that chronically criminal biological parents were three times as likely to produce a chronically criminal son as were biological parents with no such convictions. Other research indicates that serious offenders are far + more hyperactive and difficult as children than non-offenders. The authors believe these...
...xenon, in the layer of Cretaceous clay deposited during roughly the same period that the dinosaurs became extinct. They were seeking to identify the nature of the object responsible for the impact. Because noble gases collect in carbon particles, the scientists isolated the carbon in Cretaceous sediment taken from Denmark, Spain and New Zealand. To their surprise, all three samples contained carbon that had been deposited at a rate 10,000 times as great as carbon in the layers immediately above and below them. It was bunched together in the fluffy patterns characteristic of common soot. Says Anders...
...efforts at tax reform remind me of one of Denmark's better-known fairy tales," said the President during his dinner toast. "When I talk about (reforming the tax system), I can visualize a beautiful swan. All the special interests see is an ugly duckling...