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...Dalby is clearly an expert forager, with a love for digging at the roots of things, be they customs or words. She tells us that it was a German moon goddess, Eostre, who gave her name to both Easter and to the female hormone estrogen, and she explains that in old China, a hawk and a dove were considered to be the same bird, seen in a different light. She retells the poignant story of the compiler of the 16,000-page Great Chinese-Japanese Classical Dictionary, who saw the proofs of 12 of his 13 volumes reduced...
...world. Jenny Saville's big nudes, for instance, with their masses of battered flesh, are descended from the questions women asked then about the abuse of women's bodies. There's even a residue of feminist thinking in Study of a Boy 1, a haunting photograph by the German artist Loretta Lux, in which a woman's gaze inspects, or "studies," a wary little man in the making. Feminism lives--and in mysterious ways...
...Impact. David Henkes, from market-trends company Technomic, says affluent boomers in particular are drawn to "the perceived status symbol of liqueurs and are shifting their spending toward the higher-priced products." But what's really driving the category, says Walters, are younger drinkers. They were first targeted by German producer Jägermeister, whose marketing team hired young women to stage promotional events in bars. In 2006 Jägermeister accounted for about 25% of all liqueurs imported into the U.S., Walters says...
Airbus' ability to climb out of the crisis has been severely restricted by its cumbersome and intensely political management structure. The French, German, Spanish and British consortium is backed by billions of dollars in taxpayers' money. But it's a nightmare of corporate governance because management and blue-collar jobs have traditionally been divvied up among its various state and private owners. Horse trading trumps efficiency, so many operations are needlessly duplicated. The wiring muddles behind nearly $3 billion in cost overruns are a classic example: plants in Toulouse and Hamburg wired different parts of the A380 in different ways...
...anti-war patches and posters. “We want people to wear and post their anti-war voice to show decision-makers our dissent,” said Kaveri Rajaraman, a third-year graduate student of molecular and cellular biology and an HIPJ member. Amar Abbas, a German visitor whose family lives in Iraq, said he appreciated the anti-war protests. “It’s really exciting to see students demonstrating after four years of craziness in Iraq,” he said. Karen Carmean and Doane Perry, a Cantabrigian couple, joined in the protest. Carmean...