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...association of private rail-freight operators. Mario Monti, the E.U.'s tough antitrust Commissioner, made it clear at a rail conference last year that he won't tolerate merely shifting the monopoly; he warned state-owned flag carriers that they "do not have blanket immunity from the competition rules." Rolf Georg is testing to make sure. He owns a four-person firm, based in Frankfurt, that runs an overnight sleeper service between Berlin and Malmö, Sweden. When DB charged him what he says were exorbitant prices to lease one of its engines, he took the case directly to Monti...
...while most of us look backward at last quarter's growth, the market is telling us what lies around the bend. "The stock market essentially anticipates the economic situation by three or four quarters," he says. "Right now it is pricing in a recovery for next year." Commerzbank strategist Rolf Elgeti disagrees. He says it's an old-fashioned "bear squeeze": traders bet so heavily on the market dropping in February and early March that they had to scramble to buy shares when it inched up. "The market...
...That?s what Dr. Rolf Hilgenfeld and his associates in Germany are trying to do. The researchers examined the coronavirus genome and developed a theoretical compound that could act as a protease inhibitor. By searching for compounds with a similar chemical structure, they quickly found an existing cold drug called AG7088, developed but never marketed by the drug company Pfizer, that might similarly interdict the coronavirus? protease?giving researchers a potential weapon against SARS. ?The compound itself will probably not be used for a drug to treat SARS,? said Dr. Hilgenfeld. ?But it is a very good starting point...
Suprisingly, Rahimi’s cell phone is only one of his many useful “solutions for common problems.” He is currently compiling a book of ideas with friend and fellow grad student Rolf Howarschmidt that includes suits that businessmen can ride bikes in and, perhaps most interestingly, “a coat for people with ‘public autoerotic proclivities.’” Rahimi clarifies, “Basically, it lets its wearer masturbate in public without anyone else knowing.” Despite his ambitious future projects, Ali remains...
...took the UNMOVIC position after having served for 17 years as the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (the UN atomic watchdog). He was summoned out of retirement by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan after Security Council members failed to agree on the nomination of fellow Swede Rolf Ekeus to head UNMOVIC. Blix's appointment was unanimously approved by the Security Council, and he led the inspectors back into Iraq last November following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1441. Last Tuesday, Annan ordered the evacuation of all UN personnel from Iraq, a day before the start...