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...Extavour’s lab focuses on early embryonic development, and devotes more energy to observing the intricacies of germ cells than to the larger organisms in which Giribet specializes. “She creates an excellent environment in the lab,” says Franz Kainz, a graduate student who has worked with Extavour since July 2007. “We’re extremely productive but it’s still a great environment,” he adds...
...museum re-opened nine days later, the theft was front-page news around the world. Tips were pouring in from amateur detectives, nutty professors and clairvoyants. Thousands of people lined up at the Louvre just to see the empty spot where the painting once hung. Among them was Franz Kafka, who was visiting Paris and whose cameo in this story, of course, makes it all the more Kafkaesque...
...demanding song, but the listener is easily hooked from the start.The finest moments of this majestic album are its effervescent pop songs. Perhaps the best song on “Dark Days/Light Years” is “Inaugural Trams”, which opens with Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy counting in German. It is a sweetly silly love song as well as, yes, a tribute to trams: “Let us celebrate this monument of progress / We have reduced emissions by 75%.” Frontman Gruff Rhys sings, “I will design...
...trend with record sales - nearly 185,000 tons, an increase of 2% over 2007, sold domestically and in 140 export markets. And while figures for the first quarter of this year are not available yet, "so far we have heard positive and optimistic reports from chocolate companies," says Franz Schmid, managing director of Chocosuisse, an umbrella organization for Switzerland's chocolate industry. (Read a TIME story about nude hiking in Switzerland...
...contracts are incredibly complicated, a thousand pages and more, and all in English," says Franz-Reinhard Habbel, spokesman for the Federation of German Cities and Municipalities. "Many cities were just out of their depth and unable to understand them...