Deadly storm tree shocks Alsace concert crowd
A powerful windstorm toppled a large tree onto spectators at a Yiddish music concert in Strasbourg region, killing 11 and injuring about 85. Rescuers freed victims amid heavy rain as officials opened a judicial probe into responsibility. The disaster prompted cancellation of other outdoor events including the Avignon Festival opening. Pope John Paul II sent condolences.
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Scientist’s Nobel Prize Dream Rebuilds Dresden Icon
Gunter Blobel, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in medicine, used his nearly one million dollar award to fund plans to reconstruct the Frauenkirche in Dresden. He carried in his mind the image of the ruined church from World War II and vowed to restore it as a symbol of reconciliation and memory.
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Blobel’s lifelong quest to rebuild Dresden’s Frauenkirche
The Nobel laureate Gunther Blobel recalls seeing Dresden’s Frauenkirche as a child refugee in winter 1945, its ruin symbolizing wartime loss. He fled communism to the United States, rose to prominence at Rockefeller University, and now leads a fundraising and restoration effort aiming for a 2005 completion of the dome with global donor support.
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