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...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...
Holbrooke's piece is akin to Robert McNamara's and Henry Kissinger's self-serving pronouncements and Monday-morning quarterbacking as to their roles in Southeast Asia. The real, original tragedy labeled Bosnia is the bumbling dismemberment of formerly confederated Yugoslavia. A worldly wise Swiss friend of mine, who has lived in both the Balkans and the Middle East, made an interesting comparison: In Lebanon an imperfect but very livable and prosperous Swiss-type status quo prevailed for years, providing Christians, Muslims, Druzes and others breathing space and give-and-take ethnoreligious integrity. But recently that harmony has ceased...
...Antibiotics may help the COMMON COLD. Although doctors usually discourage their use because most colds are caused by viruses that antibiotics can't kill, a Swiss study finds that 20% of cold sufferers also harbor bacterial infections...