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...optimists believe economic progress will inevitably provoke political progress. "If economic reform works," says Franz-Lothar Altmann, deputy director of the Sudost Institut in Munich, "it will legitimize political change." The eventual goal is a gradual Finlandization in which certain bloc countries move toward Western-style market economies and adopt the political democratization that goes with them, reducing the adversarial nature of the East-West relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Eastern Europe: Chips Off the Old Bloc | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

While in Europe, Joslin worked with the British School of Archaeology on a dig in Crete and tracked turtles and monk seals in Scala, Greece. She also took some classes at L'Institut Cordon Bleu in Paris. Her culinary repertoire--heavily influenced by her travels through Greece and the Soviet Union--includes moussaka, chicken Kiev and borscht...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Living the Life on the Field and Off the Field | 3/1/1989 | See Source »

...Testament injunction against graven images did not apply to the work of Jewish artisans of the Middle Ages. Fortunately so, as illustrated in The Hebrew Bible in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, by Gabrielle Sed-Rajna (Rizzoli; 173 pages; $85). Sed-Rajna, director of the Hebraic department of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris, has included , painted manuscripts from the 13th through the 15th centuries. Biblical characters depicted in medieval dress recall the stories of Genesis, Abraham and Jacob, David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions' den and The Song of Solomon. The undeniable vigor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shelf of Holiday Treats and Treasures | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...served as Director of a Max Planck Institut in Starnberg and Munich and has held a host of teaching positions at institutions such as the New School of Social Research, theUniversity of Heidelberg, Wesleyan University, theUniversity of Pennsylvania, the University ofCalifornia and the College de France...

Author: By Melissa W. Wright, | Title: Top German Philosopher Habermas Argues Linkage of Law and Morality | 10/2/1986 | See Source »

Three other Harvard-Smithsonian astronomers, James Moran, Mark Reid and Matthew Schneps also took part in the experiment. In addition, Dennis Downes of the Institut de Radio Astronomie Milimetrique in Grenoble, France, Reinhard Genzel of the University of California at Berkeley, and Bernt Ronnag of the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden participated in the work...

Author: By Jennifer M. Oconnor, | Title: Team of Astronomers Measures Galaxy | 5/2/1986 | See Source »

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