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Spaten Oktoberfest Ur-Marzen (German) was a close fourth in the Bierkraft tasting and is a favorite back in Munich, but the barkeeps were unimpressed with its subtle taste...
...track - winning world half-marathon and cross-country titles for the past two years. This year her track results changed. Radcliffe won gold in 5,000 m at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester last July, and followed that a little over a week later at the European championships in Munich by setting a new European record for 10,000 m: 30.01.09, crossing the finish line some 300 m ahead of her nearest rival. "I always knew I could win," she says. "It was a case of improving and coming back again." The Munich victory prompted a churlish journalist from...
Arnd Leike of the University of Munich garnered the Ig Nobel in Physics by showing that beer froth diminishes according to the mathematical Law of Exponential Decay...
...then become such an artistic force that the National Gallery in Berlin dedicated an entire room to his work in 1932. The Nazis put a stop to that the following year and eventually accorded Beckmann the unintended honor of a place in the notorious "Degenerate Art" exhibit in Munich in 1937. During the following years in exile, Beckmann fled not to abstraction but to a treatment of life's fundamentals: he painted powerful tableaux entitled Birth and Death, and did many paintings of women, often using his wife, Quappi, as a model. In his later years he embarked...
...were deadly bombings; others were protest riots or attacks on police stations that don't fit common definitions of terrorism. 'I think the U.S. made a diplomatic deal' so China won't use its U.N. Security Council veto to block an Iraq invasion, says Enver Can, director of the Munich-based East Turkestan National Congress, a Uighur exile group. China in return can crack down on Uighur dissidents as 'terrorists' with less risk of censure for human rights violations, Can claims. 'China has the green light to do whatever it wants...