Beneath a railway bridge, Swiss artist Franziska Furter's "Mojo" (2012), a colorful concoction of magic amulets, hangs like a chandelier, moving and tinkling with the wind.

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And German Green MEP Franziska Brantner hit out at EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Baroness Ashton, accusing her of deploying "empty phrases" on human rights in Egypt.

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At the final "Occupy Barbie" meeting Tuesday, Franziska Sedlak, 25, wondered why the Dreamhouse only lets girls act out careers like model and pop star, instead of jobs like engineer and mathematician.

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Cancer research "is a little like physics before Isaac Newton, " says evolutionary biologist Franziska Michor at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who has devised a model of how leukemia cells respond to the drug Gleevec.

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"The car industry has been driving negotiations all along and European Union politicians have been happy to sit in the passenger seat making comments about the scenery, " said Franziska Achterberg, the pressure group's EU transport policy campaigner.

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