Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard School of Public Health (SPH) will dedicate a new building next week, in memory of a Swiss rescue pilot, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud. The building will serve as the school's Center for Health and Human Rights...
...most perplexing and devastating of all mental illnesses, was an early success story. After several decades as a hopeless research backwater, the schizophrenia field was reborn in 1989, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a remarkable drug, clozapine (brand name: Clozaril). Made by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Sandoz, Clozaril was aimed at patients who did not benefit from other drugs. While traditional antipsychotic drugs such as chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and haloperidol (Haldol) work by blocking dopamine receptors, Clozaril appears to bind to serotonin receptors as well. "It is what we call a dirty drug," says Mount Sinai's Davis...
...heroine and acquaintance Martina Navratilova. By the age of two, the little Martina was playing outdoors, and at five she was playing in tournaments. She spent her first eight years in what is now Slovakia, and after her parents' divorce and her mother Melanie's subsequent marriage to a Swiss computer executive, she moved to Trubbach, Switzerland. Her adopted home has naturally led to her being called Heidi, but Heidi did not sign a five-year deal with the all-powerful International Management Group when...
...fingerprints or bar codes. Mixed with gunpowder and other explosive agents, they can identify the manufacturer, the point of sale or theft, and provide other useful information. They were invented by a Minnesota chemist in 1973 and for the past 11 years their mandatory use in Switzerland has helped Swiss police solve more than 500 explosives cases. But adding taggants to black and smokeless gunpowder in the U.S.--the materials common in many unsophisticated bombs--is still prohibited...
...lawsuits from bombing victims. And because the National Rifle Association believes any government intrusion will lead down the slippery slope to more gun control. The N.R.A. doesn't say that, of course. Its opposition is couched in terms of safety. Taggants, it says, can destabilize gunpowder, a claim the Swiss experience disproves. But the N.R.A.'s political power is legendary. To support its view, since 1980 the N.R.A. has used a single test by Congress's former Office of Technology Assessment, which found that taggants could cause "increased reactivity" with at least one form of smokeless powder. But the powder...