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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...
...Neanderthal man may now have a new nickname: “Ginger.” Some Neanderthals had red hair and pale skin, according to recent research conducted by Holger Römpler, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Evolutionary and Organismic Biology, and a host of international colleagues. Römpler and his collaborators extracted DNA from the bones of two Neanderthals, a 43,000-year-old Neanderthal from El Sidrón, Spain, and a 50,000-year-old from Monti Lessini, Italy. Looking at the cells of the Neanderthal bones, the researchers discovered a specific...
...title. In Wurzburg, no hoops hotbed, he should have followed his father into team handball, the sport in which Jorg Nowitzki played for the West German national team. Or toiled in his family's housepainting business. But a member of West Germany's 1972 Olympic basketball team, Holger Geschwindner, discovered the gangly teen in Wurzburg and groomed his raw talent into the first-round draft pick of the Mavericks...
...have been transformed by 19 architecture studios from 13 countries. Each level showcases a different avant-garde interior-design concept, from Zaha Hadid's sinuous lines and fluid spaces on the first floor to an exercise in geometry and light by London-based Plasma Studio's Eva Castro and Holger Kehne on the fourth. Other designs include Teresa Sapey's colorful parking garage, Christian Liaigre's Latin-inspired restaurant, Marc Newson's glass-enclosed cocktail bar and an oasis-like garden by Harriet Bourne and Jonathan Bell...
...tell that to Holger Peters, 24, who was cheering the Chancellor on in Magdeburg. "Schr?der has achieved a lot for Germany," he says. "[CDU candidate] Angela Merkel and the others don't have any arguments for improving the situation." Peters even likes the "one-euro jobs" that Schr?der introduced last year as part of his controversial economic reforms. Intended to reintegrate long-term unemployed into the labor market, the jobs are structured so that employers pay only ?1 per hour, with the rest of the employee's income covered by unemployment benefits. Skeptics say the system encourages wage dumping...