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Travelling from his base, Wilson snowboarded in the Austrian Alps, hang-glided over Swiss lakes, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, according to an article he wrote last fall for the newsletter of his MIT-headquartered ROTC detachment. But he emphasized in the article that he enjoyed his time on duty as much—if not more—than his off-duty adventures...
...Swiss photographer Gerster has been taking aerial photos of some of the world's most spectacular archaeological sites for the last 50 years. This collection, edited by Charlotte Trümpler, director of the archaeology collection of the Folkwang Museum in Essen, Germany, shows off ancient ruined cities in breathtaking patchworks and the awe-inspiring architecture of religious sites from the temples of Abu Simbel in Egypt to Caesarea in Israel. In an age when anyone with a digital camera can pretend to be David Bailey, Gerster takes photos that demand a helicopter, no fear of heights and decades...
...inside the world of a Bombay cop. After reading the book, you'll swear you know precisely how to collect a bribe from a nightclub owner, how to count the money in a glance, and where to find the smart fellow who will shift the loot to a Swiss bank account. Rarely entirely honest or entirely rotten, Chandra's Bombay exists in a penumbra of moral ambiguity-which is why Sacred Games is one of the best novels about India in a long time. -By Aravind Adiga...
Novartis has been flying pretty high lately, despite delays and bad news about a major diabetes drug it hopes to launch next spring. The Swiss drug giant's 2005 income of $6.1 billion on sales of $32.2 billion set a record that CEO Daniel Vasella expects will be broken this year. He spoke with TIME's UNMESH KHER and BILL SAPORITO about vaccines, Democrats and why the firm is wading into China...
Thierry Nataf, CEO and creative director of Zenith, the Swiss-based watchmaker, likes to model his most daring pieces after his own Bond-like lifestyle. This season he debuts the Defy collection, which looks vaguely like an accessory you absolutely cannot wear unless you fly your own jet and race cars. The collection, which includes the titanium-and-steel Xtreme Open, below, and the smaller Elite series, is an outsized group of graphic, chunky precision timepieces that appeal to the sportif type with an athletic build. From the decorative screw heads to the rotating bezel to the stainless-steel bracelet...