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...experience to life for students. And an extensive online archive featuring thousands of photographs and more than 1,350 interviews with elderly Jews still living in Central Europe, recently unveiled by a Vienna-based organization known as Centropa, is being used as a teaching aid in Austrian-German, Hungarian and some U.S. schools...
...Holography was invented in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, a Hungarian scientist working in London who discovered that reflected light could be captured and reconstructed to create the illusion of three-dimensional images. (He won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery.) Gabor, however, lacked the technology to perfect holograms; double images sometimes appeared at once and were not viewable. In the 1960s, Emmett Leith added lasers to the equation and rendered the first stable holograms - which included a toy train that astounded other scientists when they...
...Officially, that closes the book on the matter, which arose from a brief relationship that Strauss-Kahn initiated in January with the IMF's then-head of its Africa department, Hungarian economist Piroska Nagy. Now the question is whether the former French Finance Minister and Socialist Party presidential hopeful can move past the considerable distraction the scandal has caused, and turn to the rising chorus of voices calling to make the IMF central to the world's effort to face the surging financial and economic crisis...
...available evidence has surfaced to contradict Strauss-Kahn's assurances that "at no time did I abuse my role as director-general." Lawyers for Nagy, a Hungarian economist who now works in London for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, say she left the IMF of her own will and received standard compensation under a cost-cutting plan that eliminated 380 positions via voluntary departures. Caught red-handed after Nagy's husband discovered e-mail sent last January during the monthlong affair, Strauss-Kahn owned up to the tryst, stressing that his transgressions ended there. On Monday, Strauss-Kahn...
...music lectures given by Leonard Bernstein ’39, Zander explained the background and content of the first piece on the program, Béla Bartók’s little known “Dance Suite.” Mentioning that Bartók collected Hungarian folk songs and wrote compositions that reflected these tunes with “fantastic sophistication,” he pointed out the piece’s important melodies and structures, and even led the orchestra in playing short excerpts to prepare the audience for the upcoming performance. The interactive approach...