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...Mediterranean. Schoolchildren in her namesake city were given a public holiday to watch her crew parade through the streets. "She was a beautiful ship, a well-experienced ship," says Ean McDonald, a former Sydney signaler. But on Nov. 19, off the coast of Western Australia, she encountered a German raider, the Kormoran. What happened next will never be known for certain, but both ships sank. The Kormoran was scuttled and more than 300 of its 400 crew were rescued or washed ashore. The Sydney and all aboard it were lost. The exact locations of both ships were a mystery...
...from that time, van Burgel dug through archives and extrapolated from land weather charts, then used computers and satellite imagery to model 1941 conditions. When the three approaches yielded similar results, he says, "we thought we were on to a good thing." Drift specialists could then identify where the German ship was likely to be. "And David [Mearns] kept saying, if we find the Kormoran, we find the Sydney," says van Burgel...
PHYSICIST Sir Isaac Newton is usually seen as the enemy of athletes. So much of sports, after all, involves battling gravity. But basketball coach Holger Geschwindner, 62, has found a way to turn the laws of physics to his advantage. A former captain of the German national team and a physicist, he has developed a series of formulas that may reveal the optimum arc for jump shots, using a combination of player height, arm length and release point. "Take differential and integral calculus. Make some derivations and create a curve," he recently said. "Everybody...
...early days, his methods alienated Geschwindner from the basketball community, but then his first crop of players came of age. Four other former Geschwindner pupils from Würzburg, a city of 300,000, play with Nowitzki on the German national team, which is sharpshooting its way through the qualification rounds for the Beijing Olympics. "If you see what he does, you can't believe it works," says Christoph Bueker of the German Basketball Federation. "But he's been so successful, you can no longer say it's lunacy...
...Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive.' ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust in the third speech ever delivered in German to the Israeli parliament...