Two women, one suspicion. Karen Wright and Martha Dobie have opened a school for girls. It is on the way to becoming a respected institution in the small town of Lancet in New England. All of a sudden their apparently secure future is threatened when a student accuses them of having a love affair. The young women cannot survive unharmed the character defamation that follows. More...
At the University of Hamburg, where there has been a special focus on nanomagnetism research for a number of years, the German Research Society (DFG) created a new Special Research Area (SFB 668) with the title "Magnetism from Single Atom to Nanostructure". Starting January 1, 2006, the DFG appropriated 10 million euros for four years for this project.More...
A team of eight junior scholars headed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Siegbert Uhlig and 500 authors from 40 countries have just published the second volume of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA AETHIOPICA. It contains around 1,000 articles, maps and illustrations of the cultures in the Horn of Africa. More...