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...animals with characteristics of both sheep and goats. Only one of them, however, had blood proteins from both species. That animal behaves like a goat and has even tried mating with female goats, but like another hybrid, the mule, its sperm are defective. At Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, West Germany, other embryo manipulators also reported producing goat-sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's a Geep | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...talk of war plays upon the fears of the young. "They feel like passengers in a car racing toward an abyss," says Horst Eberhard Richter, a professor of psychosomatics at the University of Giessen. "They have a desire to grab the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarming Threat to Stability | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...pond whenever it rains. At Fliegerhorst barracks near Hanau, 15 miles south of Büdingen, helicopter repair crews have taken over the base's only gymnasium. They repack drive shafts on the basketball court beneath a sign that reads NO DUNKING ALLOWED. At Rivers barracks near Giessen, nearly 3,000 soldiers are crammed into what was a Wehrmacht military prison during World War II. "The tip-off is that the barbed-wire-fence topping points in, not out," says an officer stationed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Army of Self-Helpers on NATO's Front Line | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Died. Princess Marie Christine of Prussia, 18, great-granddaughter of the last Kaiser, whose father, Prince Hubertus, died of peritonitis when she was three; following the crash of her car, six weeks after her favorite uncle, Prince Friedrich, committed suicide by drowning in the Rhine; in Giessen, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 10, 1966 | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

...physicist was born in Giessen, Germany and attended schools in Berlin and Paris, Strauch was a Junior Fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows from 1950 to 1953, when he was appointed an assistant professor. He became an associate professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strauch Named Full Professor | 7/12/1962 | See Source »

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