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...court was upholding a law introduced in 1993, which banned multiple surnames in Germany. Before this legislation, triple- or quadruple-barreled names were rare, but they existed: there is an East German athlete, for example, named Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm, and a prominent pollster and political scientist who went by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann-Maier-Leibnitz until she dropped the second half of her name after her husband died. And members of the German aristocracy often carry extremely long names. (See pictures of Berlin...
...Earlier this year, Austrian authorities began decommissioning all cotton swabs manufactured by Austrian company Greiner Bio-One International AG after they had made a similar discovery, with a different mysterious DNA donor. On Thursday, several German states admitted to using that same brand of cotton swab. An investigator from the state of Baden-Württemberg told Bild newspaper: "The things were double-packaged; we thought they were the Mercedes of cotton swabs." But the Austrian manufacturer hurried to declare Thursday night that "Greiner Bio-One cotton swabs are not certified for DNA analysis...
...Berlin police spokesman Michael Merkle tells TIME that the city's investigators are now checking whether they also use cotton swabs from Greiner Bio-One. "A consequence of the present case may be to start randomly checking the cotton swabs we are supplied with for traces of DNA - which, in turn, harbors the risk of contaminating them," he says...
...join the Harvard Law School faculty next fall. The appointment of Robert H. Sitkoff to the tenure-track professorship is the Law School’s fifth appointment of the year, and comes just a week after the Law School announced that Gabriella Blum and D. James Greiner would be joining the faculty as assistant professors. The other two professors who were appointed earlier in the year were Kathryn Spier of Northwestern University’s School of Management and School of Law and Noah R. Feldman ’92 of New York University. Professor of Law John...
...according to the foundation’s Web site. In addition to the three economists, Harvard’s Sloan fellows for this year are Maurice Smith, an associate professor for bioengineering; Rachel Irene Wilson, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the Medical School; and Markus Greiner, an assistant professor of physics. —Staff writer Aditi Banga can be reached at abanga@fas.harvard.edu...