Pharmacyclics Announces Appointment of New Management Team and Board Director to Accelerate Its Future Growth Feb 13, 2009
He was accepted into the Investment Banking Program of Commerzbank in Germany after he graduated with distinction from the Westfaelische Wilhelms Universitaet in Muenster, majoring in Financing and Banking. He was later recruited by the asset management arm of Commerzbank and became a portfolio manager for international clients. (PR Newswire)
Petra the Black Swan, Paddleboat Mate Get Back... Mar 29, 2008
MUENSTER, Germany Petra the black swan has been reunited with her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat after a failed romance with a real bird. Officials at a Muenster zoo where Petra has been spending the winter took her to a nearby lake Friday and released her next to the paddleboat shaped like a giant white swan. (Fox News)
Back With Her Big, Hunky Paddleboat Mar 29, 2008
(03-28) 20:05 PDT MUENSTER, Germany (AP) ... Officials at a Muenster zoo where Petra has been spending the winter took her to a nearby lake Friday and released her next to the paddleboat shaped like a giant white swan. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)
Who ate the hippo? Unbearable zoo mystery turns into potboiler Mar 29, 2008
The Australian black swan Petra, which made headlines by falling in love with a swan-shaped pedal boat, had been building a nest at Muenster zoo with a white swan called Bruce. But zoo officials say Bruce has now left Petra - so they are planning to reunite her with the pedal boat. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Autobahn Speed Limit Would Cut Pollution, Save Lives, Police Official Says Mar 27, 2008
4 million tons a year, or the same amount emitted by all the buses operating in the country, according to Martin Moennighoff, a police director from Muenster, and the. Cars made by companies including Germany's Porsche SE can travel as fast as 220 miles an hour. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Swan, Paddleboat Getting Back Together Mar 27, 2008
In 2006, Petra, a black swan, became so attached to the boat shaped like an outsized white swan that she refused to leave its side at a lake near a zoo in the German city of Muenster. Petra and her paddleboat were taken to the zoo. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)
German Swan No Longer Loves Big Bird Mar 20, 2008
Officials in the western city of Muenster decided to let her stay with it over the winter, bringing both bird and boat into a city zoo. However, Petra met a live swan this winter. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)
Catholic Church calls for abolition of "witches camps" Feb 26, 2008
The Tamale Ecclesiastical Province Partnership Conference (TEPPCON) of the Catholic Church and its sister Muenster Diocese of Germany made the call, saying that the practice of creating witches camps in various part of the country for people accused of witchcraft was an abuse of human rights and an obstacle to national development ... The group, whose membership was mainly made up of students of the Muenster University in Germany, also donated three bags of rice and 3 bales of used clothing... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Deutsche Post Chief Zumwinkel Quits After Investigation Into Tax Evasion Feb 16, 2008
He studied at the University of Muenster where he earned masters and doctoral degrees. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, which was founded in 1881 as the country's first school of business, receiving a master's of science in 1971. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
German administrative court upholds government's right to observe Church of Scientology Feb 13, 2008
The North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Administrative Court in Muenster said there was sufficient information to permit intelligence agencies to keep the organization under observation. "There are concrete indications that the plaintiff (Scientology), as well as its members maintain ambitions against the free, democratic basic order," the court said in a statement. (North County Times)
Death trainsGerman railways host an exhibition on their role in the Holocaust Jan 26, 2008
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Infineon Names Marco Schroeter Chief Financial Officer, Replacing Guenther Dec 22, 2007
The new CFO was born in Bottrop, Germany, and has a degree in business administration from the University of Muenster. Before becoming finance chief at Schenker in January 2003, Schroeter worked for Stinnes AG, another German logistics company. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Love is blind for swan who gave her heart to pedal boat Dec 9, 2007
Worried about her fate in the Muenster region, where temperatures regularly fall into the minus figures during the winter, park keepers met to discuss what they could do. The boats are taken off the water in winter to protect their hulls. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Kalyani to buy German wind firm Sep 4, 2007
Based in Muenster, Germany, RSBconsult GmbH was set up in September 2003 by experts from the wind energy sector as a design and consulting house. The company has end-to-end design capability from components to wind turbine systems. (Business Standard)
Diamond record of ancient Earth Aug 26, 2007
"We have compared these diamonds with known diamonds and so far it seems like the most similar diamonds are ultra-high pressure diamonds which form in a subduction process," explained Martina Menneken from Westfalische-Wilhelms University in Muenster, Germany. "Today these form in plate tectonics surroundings. The implication is: did we have plate tectonics at this early stage of the Earth? I still think this is controversial; we cannot prove it and we need to do further research," she told the... (BBC News -- Science)
Ancient Diamonds Unlock Secrets of Early Earth Aug 23, 2007
Martina Menneken of Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster, Germany, and colleagues said the presence of diamonds -- which are created under intense pressure -- implied there was a relatively thick continental crust as early as 4. 25 billion years ago. (Planet Ark, United States)
World's oldest diamonds found in WA Aug 23, 2007
Dr Nemchin and his colleagues at the Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Muenster in Germany reported overnight in the journal Nature that they found the diamonds by chance while studying zircon grains from Jack Hills, 600-700km northeast of Perth. "It was a big surprise," said Dr Nemchin. (The Australian)
Battling Bitter Coffee: Chemists Identify Roasting As The Main Culprit Aug 22, 2007
Funding for the study was provided by the Technical University of Munich, the University of Muenster, and The Procter and Gamble Company. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by American Chemical Society. (Science Daily)
* Saving Mary Zwo @ Jul 10, 2007
Muenster's zoo director Joerg Adler, left, and zoo vet Sandra Silinski, right, check up on Mary Zwo as she rests in an incubator, July 1, 2007 ... On June 30, zoo workers at Muenster Zoo rescued Mary Zwo. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Gorillas in the Nursery Jul 6, 2007
A picture released by Allwetterzoo in Muenster on Monday, July 2, 2007, shows six-week old gorilla baby "Mary Zwo", watched by zoo director Joerg Adler, in the child's section of the university hospital in Muenster, western Germany. The young ape was abandoned by his mother and suffered hypothermia. (Townhall.com)
Gorilla baby treated after neglected by mom Jul 4, 2007
Allwetterzoo Muenster / AFP - Getty ImagesBaby gorilla Mary Zwo (which translates as Mary Two) lies in an incubator July 2 at the workroom of Muenster's zoo director Joerg Adler in Germany ... Six-week-old Mary Two, who also was suffering from hypothermia, was admitted to the intensive care unit at the University of Muenster's clinic on Saturday and discharged a day later. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Baby gorilla treated in human ICU Jul 3, 2007
A baby gorilla had to be given emergency treatment for severe dehydration and hypothermia in a German hospital for humans, the director of Muenster Zoo said on Monday ... A spokesperson for Muenster Zoo said the gorilla was expected to be transferred to a zoo in the southern city of Stuttgart where she would be brought up with other baby apes. (iAfrica.com)
POSTCARD FROM... Jun 23, 2007
And they've even added the Sculpture Project at Muenster in Germany, which is only held once every 10 years. More Postcards From. (Time.com)
Weird German Art; Glover's Feet; Kempner's Chic; Stone Soup: Global Arts Jun 15, 2007
The once-in-a-decade Skulptur Projekte Muenster opens tomorrow in the northern German town, with 37 artists including Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman and Rosemarie Trockel. Most of the sculptures have been created in Muenster, which also offers a cathedral, a castle and a church with three dangling 16th-century cages that once displayed tortured heretics ... Skulptur Projekte Muenster runs through Sept. 30. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Walczak Earns All-ECC Honors Apr 21, 2007
- Muenster, Germany Jose Gomez-Dowling-So. -Asuncion, Paraguay Willem JV Rensberg-Dowling-Sr. (Aupanthers.com)
Hackers Attack Gorbachev's Web Site Jan 20, 2007
Mikhail Gorbachev is shown Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1999, in a hotel in Muenster, northern Germany. Hackers attacked the Web site of a foundation run by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, posting photographs of the suppressed rally on the Web site and published an open letter to the former leader, blaming him for the deaths of more 130 people _ a tragedy known in Azerbaijan as the Black January. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
