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...year is 1828, and mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss has just met explorer and natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin. This is where Kehlmann begins the life stories of the two eminent German scientists, but what happens after that is as much comedy as biography. Kehlmann writes the men as comically eccentric, sometimes tyrannical and, yet, not wholly unlikable. While Humboldt travels the world, Gauss prefers to journey into the depths of mathematics. Gauss loves women and Humboldt is curiously asexual. But the two contemporaries are united by their fanatical quest to explore the secrets of the universe. Gauss even...
...market restrictions that can make hiring in Germany prohibitively expensive, but which the spd and unions still support. "The coalition will be a success if we get two good years in which they deal with federalism, tax reform, health-care reform and pensions," says Michael Burda, an economist at Humboldt University in Berlin. "But things will get tough once they start talking about labor-market reform." The question of how to lower the cost of labor speaks to major differences between the two partners in the coalition. Laurenz Meyer, a former secretary-general of the cdu and current economics expert...
...time, Thomas Badian was living the high life. Registered in his name was a two-seat 1998 Aston Martin. "He told me he liked to put the top down and take a long drive," recalls Pet Quarters' Dempsey. "I asked him if he'd like to drive out to Humboldt [Pa.] to take a look at our distribution center. For a guy who had just loaned us money, he seemed strangely detached. He never did make the drive." He had other plans for Pet Quarters. Just not the ones Dempsey had imagined...
...also offers an extensive library, a graphics and electronics lab, three gymnasiums and many extracurriculars. While the best of Milwaukee's K-8 schools have adopted such middle school features as lockers, science labs, changing classes throughout the day, they can't equal a program like Fritsche's. At Humboldt Park, for instance, Spanish is taught by a paraprofessional using computerized lessons; the only gym doubles as the cafeteria...
Milwaukee parent Jeff Wagner decided to send his daughter to Fritsche instead of keeping her at Humboldt Park past fifth grade. "There was no comparison," he says. Fritsche "had activities after school from forensics to track--plus the quality of teaching and the tough curriculum." Middle school fans also question the impulse to shelter young adolescents. "You're not in some sort of cocoon. You need to evolve," insists Fritsche eighth-grader René Espinoza. And what happens when it comes time to go to high school, asks Fritsche band teacher Joyce Gardiner: "To go from a little-bitty...