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Nutrient and Physical Soil Characteristics of River Cane Stands, Western North Carolina 

ABSTRACT Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Muhl., commonly called river cane, is a member of the grass family (Poaceae). The primary purpose of this...

Good and Greasy 

Early 20th-century Mississippi string-band tunes had a down-home feel DURING THE 1920s AND "30s, talent scouts from the then-embryonic music...

Internet threatens staid German insurance sector; Adam Tanner goes online in Berlin to discover there's a major change in policy 

Few businesses better embody the stereotype of Germany's cautiously conservative post-war economy than the insurance sector.

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Letter from Berlin: Smoking 'is a grim legacy of Hitler's reign of terror' 

In the 1930s, Germany led the world in scientific study linking smoking with cancer and in government efforts to curb smoking.

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Cookies off the PC menu; Webwasher team thwarts high-tech tags 

Ronald Cuny logged on to Playboy's Internet page and, as pictures of scantily-clad women and suggestive headlines appeared, his computer made...

It's Alexander the freight; Life of East German wheeler-dealer 

In Berlin.

When Communist East Germany's leaders wanted to obtain rare goods such as exotic fruits or pornographic videos, Mr...

Yeltsin attacked as former ministers consider alliances 

Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov attacked Russian President Boris Yeltsin yesterday for presiding over a "regime which people cannot understand", as...

Lucky stiff - preservation of Vladimir I. Lenin's embalmed corpse 

Russia continues the tradition of maintaining Lenin's embalmed corpse. Ilya Zbarsky managed the process from 1934 until 1952. His father developed...