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Sitting on the bar at the top of the K90 hill, Simon Ammann felt "horrible, I was so nervous." The 20-year-old Swiss who had never won an international competition was up against the two big names of ski jumping, Germany's Sven Hannawald and Adam Malysz of Poland. But by the time Ammann leapt out into the pristine air over the Utah Olympic Park, he knew his final jump would be a good one. With a distance of 98.5 m and a perfect landing, it gave him the gold. He thus became the first Swiss ever...
...officers closed roads for miles around Dannenberg and ripped down protest banners. They detained 780 protesters briefly and arrested 45 others. "They didn't allow us even a small, low-profile demonstration," complained Sven Teske of the environmental group Greenpeace. "It was a democracy-free zone...
...firms like Acti-Via are one of the strengths of France?s tech sector. Another French strength: optics and microelectromechanical systems (mems), machines too small to see with the human eye, used for industrial purposes like wireless network equipment. These kinds of French tech companies have global potential, says Sven Lingjaerde, head of the European Tech Tour Association, but only if they can build experienced management teams and get international expansion right. Whether they can do all this exclusively from France is still an open question...
...Sven Lingjaerde EUROPEAN TECH TOUR ASSOCIATION President 41, Swiss www.techtour.com...
Last Monday evening, Sven Beckert, an Associate Professor of History at the college, began the first class he was teaching at the extension school with an undeniably casual air. He stood in front of a very crowded Sever classroom and scanned his 7:30 p.m. class with a faint smile, seemingly oblivious to the fact that his dark blue oxford shirt was slightly unbuttoned at the bottom, revealing just a sliver of his white undershirt...