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...child. In fact, the DNA labs often get used toothbrushes or pacifiers from their customers instead of the normally requested mouth swabs. The majority of labs will also use these personal effects to extract DNA samples. Because he considers surreptitious genetic fingerprinting "a massive invasion of personal privacy," Joachim Jacob, Germany's Commissioner for Data Protection, is moving to ban DNA paternity tests. It's unfair that "the unauthorized opening of a letter is a criminal offense, while clandestine paternity tests are not," he says. "Just imagine a mother-in-law has a suspicion and endangers the whole family structure...
...could be a tough slog for Kirch's new chief executives, Wolfgang van Betteray, an insolvency specialist, and Hans-Joachim Ziems, a Kirch adviser. "My experience is that they will never get all the creditors behind such a complicated insolvency plan," said Wolfgang Petereit, a bankruptcy expert in Mainz. "The commercial interests of the creditor groups are totally different." What's worse, the new law requires companies emerging from bankruptcy to keep all the employees on the payroll and honor existing employment contracts, which scares off many potential investors. Complicating matters in Kirch's case is the company's opaque...
HELMUT PANKE Car Guy The ultimate driving machine soon will have a new master. Panke, 55, was named CEO of BMW after Joachim Milberg announced he would retire in May 2002. Panke, now the CFO, has been with BMW for 19 years; in the 1990s, he was head of U.S. operations. He plans to retain BMW's strategy of staying small--and profitable--unlike larger, ailing competitors such as Ford...
...Joachim said the team’s analysis will not be “a single design solution or a single viewpoint,” but rather a “brain trust of what could happen” at the site...
...people working in the field, their interest is based on who is paying them,” Joachim said. “In school, we have the freedom to come up with the best possible solutions...