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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...