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...provided 150 volunteers to answer the charity consortium's phones. Among Europe's biggest corporate donors is Germany's Deutsche Bank, which wrote a check to a relief fund for €10 million. Deeply moved upon his return from flood-damaged regions of India on Jan. 4, chief executive Josef Ackermann learned that the bank's employees had already collected more than €1 million in donations. "I proposed to the board that in this extreme situation, let us do something extraordinary," Ackermann says. "Let's top off the employee donations so that Deutsche Bank as a whole can make...
...down it's a pendulum on a clock. This is hands-on entertainment (and education) in which part of the pleasure is physically rotating the book to follow each letter's permutations. For adults, Ernst's geometric designs and striking hues may evoke the color-field experiments of artist Josef Albers. Kids will be more interested in the way an upside-down A becomes a drippy ice-cream cone or a sideways E turns into an electric plug. Ernst's ingenuity is equal even to the challenge of letters that don't change when turned, like O (a bagel...
...Josef Fischer, head of the surgery department at BIDMC and Mallinckrodt Professor of Surgery at HMS, has led the effort to expand. Among other initiatives, Fischer recruited Daniel B. Jones from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, who brought his Dallas-based team with him to Boston to develop a new minimally invasive surgery program...
...Concerned Women for America (CWA) have the audacity to compare Kinsey to a Nazi criminal. Robert Knight, director of the CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, told the Associated Press that “instead of being lionized, Kinsey’s proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist.” Scientist? Absolutely. But practitioner and organizer of systematic torture? Absolutely...
...course, it’s not always a space issue. One particularly zealous patron once presented the bar’s management with a life-sized poster of Josef Stalin...