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...Schiller's fertile brain actually housed in another skull dug up almost a century later? Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller Code research project are now determined to find out. They will compare dna taken from the two skulls with dna from the skeleton of Schiller's second son, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm, who was exhumed in Bonn on July 19. "Ultimately, this will show us whether one of the skulls is Schiller's - or whether neither of them is," says Freiburg anthropologist Ursula Wittwer-Backofen, one of the chief Code researchers...
...capital's Centre for Economics and Business Research. But despite the doom and gloom, there's still room enough for specialist sectors to grow handsomely. London's leading share of international markets means Britain's financial services sector should still grow by 4.7% this year, according to Ernst & Young. And that will surely make it into the Chancellor's speech...
...picture a day," but Guggenheim was no dippy dilettante. Around her she collected the best committee of art advisers imaginable, from Marcel Duchamp to Samuel Beckett, who urged her to focus on the contemporary. It was back in New York, where she and then husband Max Ernst had decamped to escape the war, that she hit the jackpot. One of the young artists she set her sights on was a custodian and art preparator at her uncle's then-budding museum. She put him on a monthly stipend and encouraged him to explore his uniquely abstract style. "Jackson Pollock...
...operation. Management made flexible working hours a condition of its investment in the plant. The demand infuriated the powerful German autoworkers union, IG Metall, but the syndicate had little choice. "Without these restrictions we wouldn't have come up with these solutions. We had to be creative," says Ernst Baumann, the board member responsible for personnel...
...their extra income for things like recreation and education, not daily sustenance. This relationship between food and income--as you get rich, you spend proportionately less to eat--has held so strongly over so many generations that economists have given it a name: Engel's law (for Ernst Engel, a 19th century statistician). The foodie revolution that began in the '70s--arugula over iceberg, short ribs over brisket, etc.--has challenged Engel's law among élites who will pay, say, $80 for a single pound of Nantucket Wild Gourmet cold-smoked salmon. But finding impossibly tender...