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When Roger Federer won Wimbledon last year, Swiss tennis officials presented him with Juliette, a prize cow. But you don't have to be a tennis star to own a fine Swiss bovine. Nina, Beate and Britta are big brown cows that spend their days grazing the picturesque Alpine meadows above Brienz, in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland-and they're for rent...
...leasing fee of $300 as well as the additional $13 per kg of cheese your cow will produce during the summer, amounting to about 70-120 kg. In the fall you are invited to go up to the Wylers' farm to get the soft or hard Swiss cheese...
...from Germany. A growing number of international companies - including eBay and General Mills of the U.S., and Japan's Unisunstar - are choosing to bypass the E.U. altogether and base their European headquarters in Switzerland. A recent survey by Arthur D. Little of firms that have done so shows that Swiss corporate tax advantages are the leading reason for the decision, ahead of other factors such as quality of life and labor flexibility. So it's little surprise that Europe's governments are taking a hard look at how to fix their tax mess. As the debate takes off across Europe...
DIED. ULRICH INDERBINEN, 103, legendary Swiss mountain guide known as "King of the Alps," who summited the 4,478-m-high Matterhorn some 370 times; in Zermatt, Switzerland. Inderbinen, who retired at 95, once said he was "the third most photographed attraction in Zermatt, after the Matterhorn and the goats...
...alter egos. Horovitz released weird electronic music under the name BS 2000. Diamond recorded satirical country tunes--Don't Let the Air out My Tires, On Your Way Up Again (The Fowl Song)--under the name Country Mike. Yauch, who directs many of the Beasties' videos as imaginary Swiss auteur Nathanial Hornblower, oversaw the Beastie Boys DVD Video Anthology for the Criterion Collection...