Word: rhine
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...RHINE RIVER, GERMANY Russian space shuttle Buran 002 to go on display at museum...
...Liechtenstein, the Rhine River, Europe's mightiest waterway, is just a swift alpine stream. Above the spotless streets of the capital, Vaduz, looms Vaduz Castle, and above that nothing but snow-capped peaks. It is hard to imagine this idyllic mountain principality with 35,000 citizens as the heart of Europe's axis of evil. Yet secret agents, investigators and a growing chorus of politicians in Germany, the U.S., the U.K. and even Australia are convinced that this tiny enclave is up to no good. German lawmakers have barraged Liechtenstein with such epithets as "rogue state" and "den of thieves...
...drug business, reporting to the chairman of the conglomerate, Marc Moret--his wife's uncle. Vasella applied the lessons he had learned while managing Sandostatin to all the company's drug-development efforts. When Sandoz announced in 1996 that it would merge with its rival across the Rhine, Ciba-Geigy, Vasella was named CEO of the new company...
Basel is in some ways the Houston of Switzerland: one industry overshadows all the others, and the zoning is haphazard. In Basel it isn't unusual to see a modern glass-and-steel monstrosity amid a row of elegant 19th century neoclassical buildings. The Rhine plies a serpentine course through the city, and Novartis' headquarters are at the river's edge, at a point where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. Across the Rhine from Novartis and a little to the east, marked by a tall white smokestack, is rival Roche. The pharmaceutical execs in Basel know one another, and they...
...Muslims)—and thus wouldn’t have been snared by a simplistic campaign of racial profiling. Complicating things further, the preliminary stages of the plot were conducted in the neighboring towns of Ulm and Neu-Ulm, which, despite being on opposite banks of the Rhine river, are in different states and are policed by separate departments. But unlike in America, where, before 9/11, FBI agents in Minneapolis couldn’t easily communicate their concerns about a terrorist plot with their counterparts in Phoenix AZ, Washington D.C., or at the CIA, who could have acted against...