"Doubts about some Peanuts"

Banks: A Deutsche Bank executive board member commissioned research into the poor image of his boss and the financial institution. Now an unpaid invoice for €800,000 is causing trouble. The firm that conducted the analysis is meanwhile insolvent. From the angle of media entrepreneur Roland Schatz, the Deutsche Bank board member Hermann-Josef Lamberti had the poor image of his boss and the firm analyzed, then shuddered at his own boldness and has since shied off paying. Yet e-mails and a presentation actually exist. From the bank's point of view, a small operator in the toils of his own insolvency is trying to collect on bizarre invoices that have no basis in fact. Roland Schatz, the man concerned, never actually had a written contract from the Frankfurt financiers. The row could become a problem for both sides, one of finance for the bank, but for Schatz one of survival.

"Lessons from Leeds"

Detectives: German security agencies are feverishly seeking young immigrants conforming to the profile of the London terrorists. The office for the protection of the constitution has recorded around 300 Islamists as a hard core, with at least twice as many seen as supporters. "For us the attack in Great Britain is the confirmation of our fears," says a high-ranking member of the office. "That's not a problem you can solve by deportations." While the parties' specialists in domestic affairs were quarrelling last week about anti-terror databases and more CCTV monitoring, people in the field were united as they seldom are: The problem is to be solved not by repression alone, but above all by prevention and integration - i.e., only in the long term.

"The Terrorists Have Us in Their Sights"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with Otto Schily, 72, federal minister of the interior, about the growing risk of attacks in Germany, the Federal government's lapse in the visa affair and the chances of a grand coalition:

"The motivation of radical Muslims is being positively stoked by specific conflicts in the world. Iraq is unquestionably one of the main problems. One needs to be stricken with blindness not to see what a lure and a boost for terrorist circles has formed there. The photos from Abu Gharaib are dreadful... ... We are part of an endangered area, we are operating militarily in Afghanistan and we are training Iraqi police. We must reckon on an attack. ... Anybody wishing to deploy the armed forces inland is making a great mistake because that would lead to a militarization of our society. ... Security must be considered in cultural, economic, political and policing terms. ... It was a bold and fair decision by the Chancellor to put a decision on the government into the people's hands. ... No constellation should be ruled out, but I see a grand coalition as only conceivable under the leadership of Chancellor Schröder. Nevertheless, that's really not something that I wish myself."

"Intimacies Traded across the Border"

The law: The operator of a German nightclub must answer to the French legal system - yet according to the law here there is nothing to accuse him of. For years, small-scale border traffic functioned perfectly smoothly between the parking lines on the French side of the border and the nightclubs on the German side. As in other bars, the clients came mainly from France and so did the "girls", as R. calls them. Until, that is, some of the French hostesses felt that they had to take holiday on their own account and R.'s female business partner threw them out. The ladies took their revenge and marched off to the French police. The police apprehended the owner in a holiday home in the South of France, took him under false pretences to the nearest police station and arrested him under Article 225-5 of the French penal code, which makes punishable anything that "in any way" supports or encourages prostitution or "derives benefit" financially from it.

"Facts from 1001 Nights"

Affairs: The flashing-blue-light and red-light scandals at Volkswagen are nipping at big politics. The ruling Social Democrat Party has accused opposition Christian Democrat and Premier of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff, of campaigning at the cost of the corporation. In return, several Social Democrats must now explain their old contracts with VW.

"Bridge Over the Nerve Fissure"

Medicine: Paraplegia was once regarded as an incurable fate. Now researchers all over the world are developing new strategies for making the nerve cells of the spinal cord grow together again. The first German study commences in these coming months, with the aid of the paralysed gymnastics star Ronny Ziesmer. Some scientists are resorting to antibodies, the others to mysterious repair cells from the nose. Others, again, favour embryonic cell material and aim to use this to bridge the gap between the two severed ends of the spinal cord.

"We Are Shaken to the Core"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with British author and London resident Ian McEwan about the attacks in the city, the battle against religious fanaticism and his new novel "Saturday", which enthrallingly describes a day in the shadows of terror:

"Society can protect itself and must protect itself. We should at last abandon this stupid and irresponsible political correctness that permits radical Islamists to preach in mosques and to recruit young followers. ... All of us in our Western prosperity have a lot to lose. That is the reason why I gave such an enviable life to Henry. We enjoy not just material prosperity, but libraries and newspapers, free access to the Internet and intellectual freedoms of a kind that have no historical precedents. ... The greatest danger is the narrowing down process involved in being fixated on a Utopia. If anybody believes that he knows the path to paradise, it is an almost rational decision to conclude: What do two or three million dead matter to me? If with that we bring mankind nearer the goal? That was no different with the Bolsheviks or the Maoists or Pol Pot - and now we are experiencing it in a particular version of Islam."

"Marionettes in the Technology Parade"

Motor racing: Formula 1 used to be an affair of passions, life and death. Today it is a matter of marketing. With the entry of car manufacturers, racing drivers have transformed themselves from freelance artists into dutiful employees. The industry promptly complained of the lack of star appeal. Formula 1, so veteran racing drivers like David Coulthard have accepted, stands for "Peak Technology" - not for some time now for a drivers' championship. Engineers have repeatedly equipped the cars with new electronic devices so that they now perform equally well for every driver, irrespective of how skilful.

"Feelings in the Minor Key"

As the midsummer sun blurs the difference between day and night, the Finns pursue a surprising passion: They collectively dance the tango. The Finns prefer a fairly stiff rhythm with only light instrumentation. The melody with its Slavonic influence is usually kept in the minor key. Finnish-style, the tango is a blend of German march music and Russian romance. Having reached Europe early in the 20th century, the tango arrived in Helsinki in the far north in 1913 and was rapidly "Finlandized". With the tango, it is the lyrics that mainly stir feelings. They almost always tell of yearning and loneliness, of love, mostly unrequited, and of the eternal longing for passion.