Word: german
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...Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday create wealth for us." The locals were unimpressed. "All we knew was that the sheep and cows kept getting stuck in the stuff," Omar says. So far the Norwegians' political gamble seems...
Weng went on to lose to eventual champion Steffen Launer of Germany. Ungar has defeated Launer in the past, beating the German in his home country at an earlier World Cup event...
...hopes to explain such mind-bogglers to scholars outside the TI-83 set. Mazur’s book, with the parenthetical subtitle “Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen,” started as a letter explaining imaginary numbers to Michel Chaouli, a professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University. Chaouli praised Mazur extensively in an e-mail, calling him “the most remarkable thinker I have ever met.” Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, who teaches Quantitative Reasoning 28, “The Magic of Numbers...
...Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), a terrorist organization working to liberate the Emerald Isle from British rule, has just detonated a bomb at Scotland Yard. Barker and Llewelyn immediately offer their services to the government and infiltrate a secretive IRB faction, posing as a German bomb maker and his assistant. They must work to earn the group’s trust while preparing to stop its ultimate plan to bring London to its knees—without concern for innocent life and perhaps more for personal than national gain, of course. Llewelyn, for his part, must also fight against his desire...
...restaurant will serve three meals a day and the café will be open for late night service. Zebny recalled that while he was at Harvard, the Square buzzed with late-night eating options such as Tasty Diner, the Cardullo family’s Wursthaus restaurant, which served up German fare. “I want to bring back late night eating to the Square and have it be fun,” Zebny said. The restaurant’s owners have teamed up with Boston-based bassist Danny Klein, the 59-year-old veteran of the J. Geils Band...