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...Five Finger Exercise” tells the story of the dysfunctional Harrington family, thrown off balance when Walter, a young German tutor, comes to live with them. After the family members attempt to manipulate the young boy for their own gain, the household begins to deteriorate and the characters realize that they do not understand each other or themselves...
...mystery since his tomb was unearthed in 1922. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that King Tut most likely died after a severe bout of malaria and complications from a leg fracture. The evidence, obtained through DNA testing performed by Egyptian, German and Italian researchers, would explain the hundred or so walking sticks found in Tut's tomb and contradicts earlier theories that he was murdered...
...nine theaters in New York and Los Angeles, while Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon made $168,000 in its ninth week of limited release. That movie has now passed $1.5 million in North America - not bad for a powerful but super-austere epic about collective madness in a German village on the eve of World War I. (See the 2010 Oscar predictions...
...think your reviews have not filtered down to policymakers?In a separate study we looked at the science that policymakers use, and it's disturbing how large the gap is between policy and evidence. We looked at the World Health Organization, CDC and U.K., Australian and German authorities - they have what it is called a "citation bias." They cite some studies that support vaccines, but other studies that find no effect are left out. Most importantly, there is no critical appraisal of the methods. [Cochrane reviewers examine the methodology of all studies they include in their systematic reviews...
...German taxpayers, though, aren't buying that argument. In an open letter published in a Greek newspaper, German journalist Walter Wullenweber of Stern Magazine compared Greece to an ungrateful child and Germany to an aunt who is never thanked for her gifts. He calculated that if all the aid Germans have given Greeks was added up, since 1981, Germans have given each Greek $12,200. In return, Wullenweber complained, Greeks swindle the European Union and retire early. "You are by far our most expensive friend," he wrote...