Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
World championship match will be short, rich By Jack Peters, International Master October 12, 2008 LA Times The world championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand of India and former champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia begins Tuesday in Bonn, Germany. They will contest 12 games, one of the shortest championships ever, for a purse of 1.5 million Euros (about $2.1 million). A short match...
Planet Lisp (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Pascal Costanza Pascal Costanza has a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bonn, Germany, and works as a research assistant at the Programming Technology Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His past involvements include specification and implementation of the languages Gilgul and Lava, and the design and application of the JMangler framework for load-time transformation of Java class...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kraus (Bonn, Germany) used the unique capability of the VLT near-infrared interferometer, coupled with spectroscopy, to probe the gaseous environment of Herbig Ae/Be stars. These...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Bonn, Germany - Germany's financial market regulator closed down the German branch of Icelandic bank Kaupthing on Thursday, hours after Iceland's largest bank group was put under state control. Bonn-based federal agency BaFin said Kaupthing was barre...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Bonn, Germany - German telephone giant Deutsche Telekom said Friday it would tighten up data-privacy rules and appoint a seventh board member in charge of corporate compliance and legal issues. The company moved six days after the revelation that a t...
Causa Liberal (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
LRCblog: "when the evil Arthur Burns arrived in Bonn, appointed by Nixon as ambassador to West Germany after his term at the Fed expired. A local reporter, at Burns's first press conference, asked him how in the world he could have engineered so much inflation, with such horrific consequences. Didn't he, as an economist, know better? Burns responded that the head of the Fed must do as the
The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Mike, on Fed independence, my favorite story is when the evil Arthur Burns arrived in Bonn, appointed by Nixon as ambassador to West Germany after his term at the Fed expired. A local reporter, at Burns's first press conference, asked...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
BONN, Germany, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- A German-led team of astrophysicists says observations of a special class of variable stars resolves a dispute about the rotation of the Milky Way galaxy. Led by Nicolas Nardetto of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, the team used observations by a spectrograph attached to a European Southern Observatory telescope in the mountains...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A growing international consensus to formally recognize and protect people uprooted by environmental problems is expected to accelerate at a major conference in Bonn, Germany, Oct. 9-11.Featured at the conference: early results of the first comprehensive empirical study gauging the extent to which environment problems influence migration decisions.Experts warn human trafficking could worsen...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Bonn - Arrest warrants against two terrorist suspects taken into custody September 26 in western Germany's Cologne airport were lifted on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Bonn regional court confirmed. The public prosecutor in Bonn applied for the liftin...
The Hoop (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Barons LMT announced the signing of Kristaps Janicenoks (1.95-SG). The latvian shooting guard is also part of the Latvian National Team and last season he played for Fortitudo Bologna. He has also played for Teramo, Capo Di Orlando, Telekom Bonn and Euphony Bree. Janicenoks is known for his shooting skills behind the arc. Last season he averaged 8.4 points and 2.3 rebounds in 28 games for Fortitudo...
Cute Overload (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Wearing a bonn-bonn. Drinking chocolate meelks. And a diaper thing. Redonkulous, Rachel B. Of course it's completely 'Shopped from the genii over at Worth1000.com.
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Ronan Bennett and Daniel King The Guardian, Monday October 6 2008 In just over a week's time, Viswanathan Anand, from India, and Vladimir Kramnik, from Russia, will do battle at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn for the title of world chess champion. Two players slugging it out over a series of games remains, for me, the greatest spectacle in chess and the...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The post-Taliban Afghanistan would double the strength of its national army which was set at the historic Bonn agreement nearly seven years ago. "Afghanistan would have 134,000-strong national army by 2012, but we would achieve the goal one year or 18 months before the time set for," Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak told reporters here after returning from the United States. International...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
The post-Taliban Afghanistan would double the strength of its national army which was set at the historic Bonn agreement nearly seven years ago.
