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...Warfield’s complaint charges Beth Israel’s then-Chief of Surgery Josef E. Fischer and CEO Paul F. Levy with years of sexist treatment culminating with her demotion from Chief of Anesthesiology, a position she had assumed...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School Prof. Gender Bias Lawsuit Moves Forward | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...This all smells like a putsch rather than a new beginning," Joschka Fischer, former foreign minister and Green Party leader wrote in the weekly Die Zeit. "Compared to Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Sisyphus would be happy. It will be a tough journey for him and his party, presumably into opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shake-Up in German Politics | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

...first, about that dubious past. Sasol's origins can be traced to the work of two German scientists, Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, who in 1923 came up with a process to convert coal to liquid fuel. When Adolf Hitler seized power in coal-rich, oil-poor Germany in 1933, the Nazis used the Fischer-Tropsch process to help power their military expansion across Europe; during World War II, Germany was producing 125,000 bbl. of synthetic fuel a day at 25 plants. After the war, a South African entrepreneur called "Slip" Menell bought the South African rights to Fischer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Little Secret | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...product is cleaner than the average diesel fuel or gasoline, emitting less sulfur and less nitrogen when it burns, says Barrows. Coal-to-liquid plants can also be used to clean up the mountains of coal left over at old mines. But in terms of carbon emissions, Fischer-Tropsch is dirty. A sliding scale of emissions from fossil fuels, goes: coal, petroleum, methane. Coal emits the most carbon dioxide per unit of energy obtained. The resultant fuel also emits more carbon dioxide when burned. "It's a double whammy," says Barrows. Ricketts cautions that Sasol's Secunda plant, which produces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dirty Little Secret | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...dawn. He later attacked the absurdity of Australia's 22 different rail gauges, and the "paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth." That line became part of the rallying cry that - several decades later - led to the standardization of all railways between Australia's mainland-state capitals. Tim Fischer, Wodonga, Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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