Word: mainz
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...Mainz, West Germany, Bush delivered his strongest speech since the Inauguration. He put the U.S. squarely in favor of the unification of Europe, addressing widespread pressure to lower the Continent's political as well as military tensions: "The time is right. Let Europe be whole and free." Turning specifically to the changing shape of some East bloc nations, Bush argued that their "passion for freedom cannot be denied forever. There cannot be a common European home until all within are free to move from room to room." But, he said, "let the Soviets know that our goal...
...story is a singularly horrible one, but the behavior that cost Dressel her life is by no means unique. Dressel died in a Mainz hospital, after three days of agonizing pain, because of a rare massive allergic reaction to the combination of drugs she took -- as many as 20 different kinds. She consumed them compulsively, seeking help from at least three different doctors to keep the medicine chest stocked, believing that they would all help her win. She believed as well that the drugs were nothing to worry about. When her mother questioned her about them, Dressel replied, "These...
...study released in Washington last week by the National Research Council, the principal operating agency of the nation's most august scientific body, the National Academy of Sciences. Three years ago, Paul Crutzen, a Dutch meteorologist who is now director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, West Germany, suggested that a cataclysmic nuclear war could be followed by a period of icy gloom. Later, Atmospheric Scientist Richard Turco of R&D Associates in Marina del Rey, Calif., Astronomer Carl Sagan of Cornell University and a handful of other researchers elaborated on the idea, concluding that...
William Opoo Mainz, West Germany...
Third movement: Scherzo. Philadelphia, 1984; the Curtis Institute. Director John de Lancie has worked hard to persuade Celibidache, now 71, to come to the U.S. The elusive conductor still leads an eclectic existence: he lives in Paris, lectures on musical phenomenology at Mainz University and conducts the Munich Philharmonic. The Philharmonic, which he will bring to the U.S. next year, grants him between ten and 18 rehearsals for each program; U.S. orchestras generally allow four. He is no easier on the young American students than he is on professional musicians. Through 17 rehearsals he painstakingly explores every bar without...