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...book was about skiing. Are you accusing me of never reading this book? Why don’t you read it if you think you’re so smart. Fuck you. It’s also partly about her brother Josef K., the push-over attorney from Franz Kafka’s awesome novel, “The Trial.” Kafka’s original manuscript was loosely based on a German facsimile of a John Grisham novel called “Runaway Trial.” The lawyers go skiing occasionally, and it?...
Lafarge is by no means alone. Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a concrete expert, says "there's not one single cement company that is not looking at" ways to improve the resistance of concrete. He still sees room for improvement. The next step is to create materials with higher strength but that use the same amount of initial material, says...
Lafarge is by no means alone in focusing on innovation. Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says "there's not one single cement company that isn't looking at ways to improve the resistance of concrete." The next step, he says, "is to achieve materials with higher strength, but which use the same amount of initial material...
...During World War I, Klee was spared from serving at the front, instead he painted camouflage on airplanes. But that didn't keep him from suffering the tragedies of war: his good friends and colleagues Franz Marc and August Macke died in combat. These experiences are reflected in Klee's work, although it's not always obvious at first glance. The abstract drawing After a Drawing From the Year 1919, for example, reduces an air attack on a boat to bare lines and geometrical shapes. In Klee's depictions of aerial battles, war planes look like birds, and often...
...expected anointing of Germany's silver-haired Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, known as the "Graue Effizienz" (a play on the term "Grey Eminence"), as the party's candidate for Chancellor - a post Beck had until recently been eyeing himself. In another unexpected move, the party's former chairman, Franz Muentefering, like Steinmeier a close aide to former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, was put forward (though not yet formally voted in) to replace Beck as party chairman...