ON a recent Saturday night in Connewitz, an emerging neighborhood of artists and students in Leipzig, Germany, the streets were buzzing. At Werk II, a former factory complex, a group of hoodie-clad 20-somethings drank beer in a cobblestone courtyard, waiting for the Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade to perform after a guitar-heavy set from the...
People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak. A delicate, if tiny, step has now been taken toward the real thing: the creation of a mouse with a human gene for language. The gene, FOXP2, was...

THE problems in the eastern part of Germany have changed. The Rev. Christian Führer, pastor of the Nikolai Church here, has not. Pastor Führer fought political injustice as one of the leading figures of the Monday Demonstrations in 1989 that gathered tens of thousands in the streets of Leipzig and helped bring down the former East German...
Leipzig er den største by i delstaten Sachsen i Tyskland. I DDR-tiden var det nationens næststørste by. Byen er en vigtig handels- og industriby og er også kulturelt set betydningsfuld.
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Navnet urbs Libzi nævntes af Thietmar af Merseburg i 1015. Leipzig har været en vigtig handels- og messeby siden middelalderen. Leipzig Universitet blev fundt i 1409. I Trediveårskrigen var der Slaget ved Breitenfeld og Slaget ved Lützen i byens område, og i 1813 fandt sted Slaget ved Leipzig, en af de største slag af Napoleonskrigene.
Leipzig var en af de største byer i Tyskland før 2. verdenskrig og DDR næststørste by. I den tidlig fase af Tysklands genforeningproces i 1989 var Leipzig kendt for mandagsdemonstrationerne med deres berømte slagord Wir sind das Volk (vi er folket). Fold ud