Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...fence was first fortified in 1961, after East Germany erected the infamous Berlin Wall, to stanch an outward flood of East Germans to the West that was running at the rate of over 200,000 a year. In 1962, the first full year in which a primitive fortified fence was in place, there were 5,761 escapes across it. So far this year there have been only 147. "Today it is far safer to try and get out through a neighboring East bloc country," Ball says. "Only the truly desperate risk the so-called Death Strip...
...Yale experiment, described by Biologist Francis Ruddle at an international conference on cell biology in West Berlin, he and Colleagues Jon Gordon and George Scangos isolated genes from two viruses and manufactured them in large quantities. Then, guided by a high-powered microscope and using tubes thinner than hairs, they delicately microinjected 1,000 to 20,000 copies of the genetic material directly into the nuclei of newly fertilized mouse eggs kept alive in laboratory dishes. The eggs were then carefully transferred to the wombs of female mice and eventually the foster mothers gave birth to 150 infants. The newborns...
Reported by Suzanne Wymelenberg/New Haven and Rosemary George/West Berlin...
...next evening some 35 police officers were on hand, including detectives in tuxedos, as the Berlin company performed Panov's staging of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. It is a ballet of terror and violence, in which the beautiful Natasya is murdered by her thwarted lover, Rogozhin. As his rival, Prince Myshkin, performed the final scene, a madman's vision of the world consumed by fire, the audience broke into wild applause...
...Every Etonian knows how Wellington is supposed to have explained Waterloo. Hitler, who had a way with brass tacks, said bluntly in Mein Kampf: Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army -which he did, to Austria, two years after the success of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Of course, "war minus the shooting" may be a way of justifying the Games, but that is something quite different from stating that the element of war is not present...