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Every pack of American cigarettes is labeled with the surgeon general's warning that smoking is a health hazard. If a person dies because he elected to ignore this warning, that is his choice. The survivor's family should not be allowed to sue. Lawrence M. Wissler New Bern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...doesn't come easy to the Swiss. Voters declined membership of the European Economic Area, a staging post to full E.U. membership, in 1992; a poll in 2001 shelved the possibility of membership talks even though around two-thirds of the country's exports head into the E.U. Instead, Bern has crafted bilateral deals with Brussels governing trade and commerce. But does Swiss cherry-picking pay off? While economists forecast slow growth this year of a little over 1%, unemployment is 3.7%, well below rates across all 25 E.U. states. And Switzerland 's GDP per capita trumps its near neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

...screen PCs to help visitors learn about Einstein's theories. tel: (49-30) 22 667 344; www.einsteinausstellung.de The scientist did not want his final residence at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to become a memorial, and the house is now privately owned. But his former flat in Bern, Switzerland, where he lived as a young man for nearly two years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis - the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Relative | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

Died. W.B. Lipes, 84, lieut. commander for the U.S. Navy and pharmacist's mate whose emergency appendectomy on a shipmate--the first ever on a submarine--became one of the most famous lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 2, 2005 | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

...scientist did not want his final residence at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to become a memorial, and the house is privately owned. But his former flat in BERN, Switzerland, where he lived as a young man for nearly two years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis-the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then 26-year-old described it as the time when "a storm broke loose in my mind." The museum features original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Relative | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

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