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...Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were hit Aug. 8 by tornados and flash floods that destroyed 424 houses and killed 59 people. The death toll there is expected to climb as rescuers get to cars washed away by the floods or crushed by falling trees and buildings. --Reported by Uwe Gunther, Charles P. Wallace and Regine Wosnitza/ Berlin, Jan Stojaspal/Prague and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...contaminated with a banned herbicide called Nitrofen. As a result, farmers said, at least 98,000 chickens would be destroyed. Worse, a number of big food chains like Metro announced that all organic products such as eggs, poultry and even beef are being pulled from shelves as a precaution. Uwe Bartels, Lower Saxony's agriculture minister, described it as "the biggest scandal in organic farming in Germany." As if that weren't bad enough, a squabble erupted in Berlin over the government's slowness in identifying the problem. According to agriculture officials, the Federal Center for Meat Research in Kulmbach...
...Economy firms that have outlasted the first Internet wave find their feet online. Other incubators are revising the point at which they become involved with fledgling companies. "The incubator euphoria died out pretty quickly, and many companies that began as incubators are repositioning themselves as pure VCs," says Uwe Fleischhauer, a partner in the consultancy Mackewicz & Partner in Munich. Says Paolo Chiari, investments coordinator of Italy's E@rchimede, "We started off in March 2000 as an incubator but by November decided to shift our activity toward that of an accelerator. So instead of investing in businesses which were...
Tabloid headlines in their native Belgium dubbed them THE DIABOLICAL LOVERS. In America they might have been called the Honeymoon Killers. Aurore Martin and Peter Uwe Schmitt allegedly found lonely singles, married them and then murdered them in order to collect the insurance money. Belgian authorities had been hunting the couple for months. Last week FBI agents arrested them in Miami, where they had spent their loot on an oceanfront condo and the Florida high life...
...from the West arrive and say, 'This East German science is ridiculous,' and his lab is closed." In her chapter about the opening of the Stasi files, Kramer focuses on a poet, Alexander Anderson, who is a devotee of French literary criticism. When informing on a fellow poet named Uwe Kolbe, he "supplied the Stasi with the bewildering news that Kolbe was 'relieving the noun of its burden ... with phonetic adjectival exaggerations...