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nate silver

Feb 15, 2010 10:03 AM CST

US on Pace to Win Most Olympic Medals

Based on projections and medals so far, US could edge out Canada

(Newser) - Based on an analysis of Olympics projections from across the board, the US could come out on top of the medal count at this year’s games for the first time since Lake Placid—in 1932. Nate Silver averaged medal projections from 9 sources; after two days the US has...

Curtis Allina, Father of PEZ Dispenser, Dead at 87

OBITUARY

Jan 5, 2010 1:29 PM CST

Curtis Allina, Father of PEZ Dispenser, Dead at 87

Holocaust survivor turned Austrian smoking substitute into kids candy

(Newser) - Curtis Allina, the man most credited with popularizing the modern PEZ dispenser, is dead at 87. His family says the cause was heart failure. Allina, born in Prague in 1922, was the only member of his Sephardic Jewish family to survive the Holocaust. After the war, he traveled to New...

Pez Sues Calif. Museum
Over Outsized Dispenser

Jul 15, 2009 2:34 PM CDT

Pez Sues Calif. Museum Over Outsized Dispenser

(Newser) - Pez is suing a California store and museum over an 8-foot-tall dispenser custom-made for the establishment—and thus not sanctioned by the Austrian candy-maker, the San Jose Mercury News reports. “From a branding perspective, I think Pez should embrace the Dosses and the museum, instead of trying to attack...

'Groovy' Dry
White From
Austria Great
for Summer

WINE REVIEW

Jul 8, 2009 5:20 PM CDT

'Groovy' Dry White From Austria Great for Summer

(Newser) - A difficult-to-pronounce wine from Austria is “one of summer’s great, unlikely pleasures,” Eric Asimov writes in the New York Times. Grüner veltliner has risen above the pack of other Germanic wines to become a favorite in America, thanks to its bracing dryness. It "can range...

Madoff May
Have Paid Off Austrian Banker

Jul 3, 2009 2:59 AM CDT

Madoff May Have Paid Off Austrian Banker

She's accused of sending him investors' cash, getting kickbacks

(Newser) - The head of Bank Medici is being probed by authorities in the US, the UK, and her native Austria over alleged kickbacks she received from Bernard Madoff, the Wall Street Journal reports. Sonja Kohn is believed to have pocketed $40 million in return for turning three funds she managed into...

Woman Who
Missed Air France
Flight Killed
in Car Crash

Jun 11, 2009 5:33 PM CDT

Woman Who Missed Air France Flight Killed in Car Crash

(Newser) - An Italian woman who cheated fate when she missed her flight on the doomed Air France jet has been killed in a car crash, the London Times reports. Johanna Ganthaler and her husband were late to the Rio airport on May 31 and caught another flight the next day. The...

Fritzl Daughter Finds
Love With Bodyguard

Jun 1, 2009 2:24 PM CDT

Fritzl Daughter Finds Love With Bodyguard

(Newser) - Elisabeth Fritzl has “renewed strength” after beginning a relationship with her bodyguard, the Telegraph reports. Fritzl, 42, was held captive in an Austrian cellar and raped by her father, Josef, for 24 years; she and her six children by her father are now under police protection. “They are...

India Riots Bust Out
After Austria Temple Killing

May 25, 2009 7:07 AM CDT

India Riots Bust Out After Austria Temple Killing

Punjab erupts in violence after Sikh guru's murder

(Newser) - Riots have broken out in dozens of cities across the Indian state of Punjab after a Sikh guru was killed in a temple in Austria yesterday. Thousands of protesters have damaged public property and set trains on fire, and in one city four people were injured when police fired on...

Haneke Wins at Cannes for His Finest Work

APPRECIATION

May 25, 2009 5:50 AM CDT

Haneke Wins at Cannes for His Finest Work

White Ribbon 'will be discussed for decades to come'

(Newser) - Even in a vintage year for Cannes, Michael Haneke's new film The White Ribbon stood head and shoulders above the competition, writes Xan Brooks of the Guardian. The Austrian director has time and again missed out on the festival's top prize, but his "icy black-and-white" pastoral set in pre-WWI ...

Gun Battle in Vienna
Temple Wounds 6

May 24, 2009 9:13 AM CDT

Gun Battle in Vienna Temple Wounds 6

Shooters stormed into temple with knives, gun

(Newser) - A mid-afternoon shootout between members of two families at an Indian religious temple in Vienna left nine people seriously injured, Reuters reports. Authorities arrested six men who barged into the Sikh temple with knives and a gun. The men, who number among the wounded, apparently were extremists who opposed the...

David Duke Goes to the Birds in Austria

May 15, 2009 5:45 PM CDT

David Duke Goes to the Birds in Austria

Former Ku Klux Klan leader runs nature photography business

(Newser) - David Duke appears to have traded in burning crosses for a high-powered camera lens, reports the Telegraph, which tracked the former Ku Klux Klan honcho to a village in Austria. The onetime US presidential candidate now sells photos of birds and other wildlife he’s taken as he traipses through...

New Software Judges
Blog Credibility

Apr 22, 2009 3:54 PM CDT

New Software Judges Blog Credibility

(Newser) - Software that would automatically rate the credibility of blogs on a scale from highly credible to “little credible” is in the works in Austria, Ars Technica reports. The program analyzes the distribution of words in successive blog posts and also compares topics against stories covered in the mainstream media...

'Fatuous'
Obama Does
US No Favors: Krauthammer

OPINION

Apr 10, 2009 10:28 AM CDT

'Fatuous' Obama Does US No Favors: Krauthammer

Big talk yields little help from European allies

(Newser) - President Obama is out in the world, "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray" and badmouthing past American actions, and to what end? Charles Krauthammer, writing in the New York Times, doesn't see any satisfactory answers. "I'm not against gift-giving in international relations," he writes. "...

Deported Ex-Nazi Goes Free in Austria

Mar 20, 2009 12:00 PM CDT

Deported Ex-Nazi Goes Free in Austria

Concentration camp guard can't be prosecuted there

(Newser) - Austria says there’s no way it can prosecute Josias Kumpf, the 83-year-old ex-Nazi guard the US shipped its way yesterday, Reuters reports. “We have always pointed out to the United States that he cannot be charged here,” said an Austrian justice ministry spokeswoman. Kumpf has admitted to...

Fritzl
Heads
to Plush
Psych Cell

Mar 20, 2009 4:19 AM CDT

Fritzl Heads to Plush Psych Cell

He'll have color TV, computer and maybe a pet in unit of Viennese hospital

(Newser) - Austrian monster dad Josef Fritzl will spend his days in far plusher accommodations than his daughter, who was repeatedly raped in her cellar prison for 24 years. Fritzl has been sentenced to life and remanded to a secure psychiatric unit of a Viennese hospital because of what the judge called...

US Deports Former Nazi Guard to Austria

Mar 19, 2009 4:57 PM CDT

US Deports Former Nazi Guard to Austria

83-year-old Wis. resident took part in massacre of 42K

(Newser) - A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp who participated in a mass slaughter of prisoners has been deported from Wisconsin to Austria, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Immigration officials today sent Josias Kumpf, 83, back to his homeland, where his fate is unclear. He had lived in the US...

Fritzl Gets
Life Sentence

Mar 19, 2009 9:06 AM CDT

Fritzl Gets Life Sentence

Incest dad found guilty on all charges

(Newser) - Austrian incest dad Josef Fritzl has been found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life in a secure psychiatric facility, the BBC reports. Jurors found Fritzl guilty on charges that included rape, incest, murder, and enslavement after he locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, raped her...

Fritzl: 'I
Can't Go
Back and
Change It'

Mar 19, 2009 5:42 AM CDT

Fritzl: 'I Can't Go Back and Change It'

Jury to decide case today

(Newser) - Monster dad Josef Fritzl apologized "from the bottom of my heart" today for keeping his daughter locked in a cellar as a sex slave for 24 years, then added: "I can't go back and change it." Fritzl, 73, made his remarks as an Austrian jury was about...

Fritzl's Daughter May Have Secretly Attended Court

Mar 18, 2009 4:44 PM CDT

Fritzl's Daughter May Have Secretly Attended Court

(Newser) - An intriguing report has surfaced in the aftermath of Josef Fritzl’s surprise guilty plea, the Times of London reports. Though unconfirmed by lawyers on both sides, various outlets say Fritzl’s daughter, Elisabeth, secretly attended much of the Austrian court proceedings. In fact, one source says her presence may...

Fritzl Gets Counseling
for 'Ordeal of Trial'

Mar 17, 2009 1:38 PM CDT

Fritzl Gets Counseling for 'Ordeal of Trial'

How about us?

(Newser) - Austria’s most infamous incestuous rapist has access to counseling at the prison where he is housed "to help him through the ordeal of the trial," a prison official said. But the official stressed that Josef Fritzl's care was not out of the ordinary. “There is no...