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...week a former Nagano committee official disclosed that a 90-volume financial record of the bid process had been destroyed in 1992 because it contained "secret information." And Nagano mayor Tasuku Tsukada reversed previous denials and admitted to TIME that Nagano's campaign had paid $363,000 to a Swiss-based agency run by Goran Takacs, son of Samaranch's friend Artur Takacs. Tsukada insisted the agent was retained only to act as liaison with I.O.C. officials, "not to collect votes, as people are saying happened in Salt Lake City...
...logic is a little shaky--just because someone is available to be bribed doesn't mean you bribe them--but the facts seem unassailable. I.O.C. executive Marc Hodler, a Swiss lawyer who has lately been acting as the organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee...
There's no doubt that reform is needed. In September the Swiss senate granted the I.O.C. a tax abatement worth $1.5 million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...
...factor is the scare that erupted in 1996 over "mad cow" disease in British beef. Though the disease was caused by feeding animal parts to cows, rather than by genetic meddling, the panic left consumers extremely wary about what goes onto the family dinner table. Herbert Krach of the Swiss Small Farmers Union notes, "For years scientists assured us that feeding animal-based feeds to cattle was harmless." But the cautions also owe something to romantic--and perhaps outdated--notions about agriculture. Says population geneticist Brian Johnson of Britain's conservation watchdog English Nature: "Conventional intensive agriculture has done more...
Something else that's easy on the eyes is the Matrox Marvel G200 ($299), which I reviewed earlier this year. A Swiss army knife of a PC-plug-in device, the Marvel allows me to edit home videos easily on my computer. It's a TV tuner, so I can watch television on my computer monitor. And it's a graphics accelerator that makes computer games come alive...