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...long as mass corruption, dirty money and banking secrecy are not eradicated together as a single priority, you'll never defeat the sub-activity within that funding terrorism," says François Valerian, head of private sector programs at the Berlin-based anti-corruption organization Transparency International. "Western nations recognize the urgency to treat this problem when it involves terrorism, but they become more pragmatic when it's in the form of ordinary corruption bleeding entire countries...
...conditions that make it difficult to determine an athlete's sex. Long a topic of debate in Olympic circles (mandatory gender testing began in the 1960s), sex ambiguity hit the headlines again last year when South African runner Caster Semenya won the women's 800-m world championship in Berlin by an astonishing two-second margin. Fellow competitors raised concerns about Semenya's masculine appearance, prompting track and field's governing body to order sex testing. The results have yet to be released, but the case focused attention on the challenges in balancing competition with an athlete's right...
...goal now, European officials say, is to try to contain the crisis to keep it from spreading beyond Greece's rocky shores by creating a so-called "firewall" around the country. In Berlin, officials said talks were underway about the possibility of offering loan guarantees to Greece and other heavily indebted eurozone countries, such as Spain and Portugal. Other governments have mentioned the possibility of buying Greek bonds from the primary or secondary markets. Finance ministers from the 16 eurozone countries held an emergency videoconference to discuss how to deal with the situation Wednesday, and the issue was expected...
...premise is simple: the year is 1936, shortly before the Berlin Winter Olympics. In the spirit of Nazi nationalism, there is a general desire in Germany to prove absolute Germanic superiority in all things, including mountain climbing. In the Alps there remains the stubbornly unconquered Eiger Nordvand (or North Face), the “last problem of the Alps.” The Eiger’s other nicknames include Ogre, or more pertinently, the Death Wall. Inexorably drawn to face their greatest challenge yet. The film’s intrepid heroes are the sprightly, fearless Andi Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas...
...experience of its members who had taken the drug and determined that lithium didn't work - a conclusion it reached six months ahead of similar findings from conventional clinical trials. (In an interesting sign of the times, PatientsLikeMe presented its observations in December at the international ALS symposium in Berlin.) Free to patients, the for-profit venture sells pharmaceutical companies the blinded data it compiles from its members about drug safety and efficacy. (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...