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...twisting tactic. But Kirch?s shares in Axel Springer are pledged to the banks, as collateral for other loans. For some analysts, the Springer move is just good commercial sense. "If you have a chance to sell assets at far above market price, you do it," says Oliver Rupprecht, an analyst at MM Warburg in Hamburg...
...WCFIA is hosting a UN Security Council Reform forum in Coolidge Hall from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight, featuring Sumio Kusaka, executive secretary to the chief cabinet secretary of Japan, Pramathesh Rath, Indian ambassador to Colombia, and Klaus Rupprecht, director of the German Foreign Office's East Asian division...
...among wild populations of mammals, particularly raccoons, skunks, foxes and bats. Nationwide, the number of reported rabies cases in animals has almost doubled, from about 4,700 in 1988 to 8,645 last year. Raccoons (4,311 cases) eclipsed skunks (2,334) as the No. 1 carriers. Dr. Charles Rupprecht, chief of the rabies section at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calls the rapid spread "one of the most intensive wildlife rabies outbreaks in history...
Destroying animals, of course, is no way to control the disease. About 60% of the raccoon population would have to be eliminated before the virus would be curbed. A better idea, says CDC's Rupprecht, is to vaccinate wild animals, just as pets are given protection. He helped develop an experimental oral vaccine for raccoons as a research veterinarian at Philadelphia's Thomas Jefferson University and the Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center. The vaccine is contained in bait and dropped into areas where raccoons roam. In tests done in New Jersey, the animals ate the bait, and many...
Poor, scrawny, rich Twiggy. Last week it was one Professor Rupprecht Bernbeck, a Hamburg orthopedist, who viewed with alarm the 17-year-old cockney dowsing rod, opined that "practically everything is wrong with her-she has a humpback, exaggerated curvature of the spine and a hanging abdomen," all leading inevitably to "pains in the loins and the hips." Nothing would help old Twig, he added, except maybe swimming or "crawling around on all fours for ten minutes each morning and evening." Whereupon Mrs. Nell Hornby, Twiggy's mother, spoke up: "What a load of rubbish...