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...book you describe how the Monuments Men used recovered records, overheard conversations and diaries to track down various works. What was their main tactic? They would go around and interrogate people. They would look for museum directors and curators and ask where pieces of art were. They'd hear vague things like, "Well, the last time we saw it the armies were going east," or "The Nazis came and said 'We're taking these works to safeguard them' " - a very utilitarian word to describe theft and robbery. Eventually they started finding people who knew things, and those people would send...
...stayed in Europe for six years after the war to finish their work. How many works did they eventually return? By 1951 they had restituted more than 5 million objects. That includes thousands of church bells the Nazis were going to melt down and use for war materials. The main mine that contained many of the works destined for Hitler's Führermuseum had more than 10,000 paintings, sculptures and other works of art. It's unimaginable. We're not talking about average things, but sculptures by Michelangelo and paintings by Vermeer...
...Bernanke's is in many ways an inspiring story, a financial overlord from Main Street rather than Wall Street, from the faculty lounge rather than the corridors of power, from the realm of pragmatism and analysis rather than partisanship and ideology. He was a nice Jewish boy from small-town South Carolina who had pursued a career of scholarship; before George W. Bush appointed him to the Federal Reserve Board in 2002, his only brush with politics had been a stint on his local school board. Before the markets went haywire, he was building a reputation...
...possible only because the honeybee's genome is one of the few animal genomes that scientists have decoded in full. The researchers looked at the genes that were switched on in the guts of sick and healthy bees - the gut being both the place pesticides are detoxified and the main region for immune defense. The technique they used is what's known as a whole-genome microarray, and it's ideal for this kind of sweeping analysis. "It's a really powerful tool that lets us look at all 10,000 honeybee genes at the same time," says Berenbaum...
...Buddhist teachings emphasizing compassion - to distribute information about HIV. The group later began documenting human-rights abuses against gay people, and its members sued to overturn Nepal's law criminalizing homosexuality. In December 2007, Nepal's Supreme Court ruled in their favor. Four months later, Pant, who was the main petitioner in the case, became South Asia's first openly gay member of parliament. By the end of 2008, the Supreme Court issued its full judgment, which not only nullified the old law but also established a "third gender" category for government documents. A newly formed government advisory committee...