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...countries and who bounce across borders - for business or pleasure. To be sure, the advent of such transplants is far from widespread: in 1999, fewer than 2% of E.U. citizens aged 21 to 35 worked in other E.U. countries. But those who do find their sense of belonging transformed. Swiss-born Alexandre Stucki, 28, a European equities fund manager in London, travels twice a week to various cities in Europe and visits his girlfriend in Paris on the weekends. "I feel very much European," he says. "It's a big word, but I don't understand the future of borders...
...this Swiss-born psychiatrist, death was medicine's dirty secret. American doctors, she learned early on, rarely discussed the subject with the terminally ill, and the idea of administering pain killers or letting patients die at home or with their families around them was almost unheard of. Determined to overthrow this taboo, she interviewed hundreds of dying patients, sometimes in the presence of startled medical students. Her best-selling 1969 book, On Death and Dying, detailed her now popularly accepted conclusions. The dying, she wrote, go through five psychological stages: denial ("No, it won't happen"), anger ("Why me?"), bargaining...
...Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross publishes On Death and Dying...
Others, who insist that you must "earn your turns"--that is, ascend mountains on a pair of skis that have synthetic skins attached to the base for traction--find their own backcountry or hire guides. Jean Pavillard, a Swiss-born mountain guide whose Colorado tour service, Adventures to the Edge, leads such folks as trial lawyers and surgeons into avalanche country (up to $2,800 for a five-day group trek), says his clients are "addicted to risk management." He leads them into the back, where they are supposed to apply the three rules they follow in their own work...
...long-term effect of this isolation appears to be a generation of juvenile delinquents. "The whole thing has much to do with the setup of elephant society," says zoologist Marian Garai, a Swiss-born South African who has been studying the relocation. Under normal circumstances, she says, a dominant older male elephant is around to keep young bulls in line. For the newly arrived youngsters, however, no such role models were provided, and Garai believes this may have had a profound effect on the elephants' psychology...