EAST German science is to clean up its act. First, the Academy of Sciences
is opening a new institute to deal with the country’s environmental problems.
Secondly, the new institute will be housed in the building in East Berlin
that used to house the Stasi, the country’s feared security police. The
institute will eventually employ up to 80 scientists. The redundant Stasi
building is ideal, one scientist remarked: the academy has taken over 100
empty rooms, and the building has well-equipped laboratories.
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