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...effective fighter against sexploitation of children is the Task Force to End Child Exploitation in Thailand, a coalition of 24 government and private agencies dedicated to exposing links between Europe and the child sex trade in Bangkok. Last year the group disclosed the existence of a Swiss network of airline-ticket agencies catering to European pedophiles; one was shut down. Then last August the task force focused on Lauda Air, the Austrian-based airline owned by former auto-racing champ Niki Lauda, for running a caricature in its in-flight magazine that allegedly promoted child sex tourism...
...organic chemist educated in Switzerland, Eschenmoser has conducted research there for almost 40 years. He was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1965, and elected to the Foreign Association of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A...
Eschenmoser has been honored by his receipt of over 13 awards from both Swiss and American institutions...
...questionnaire. Still, the anecdotal evidence gathered in 902 personal interviews with women mostly between the ages of 32 and 45 suggests that Hillary Rodham Clinton's peers often face punishment on the job for daring to get pregnant, taking a few weeks of maternity leave and shortening their workweek. Swiss and Walker call it "the maternal wall...
Many of the women reacted at one extreme or the other when the subject of their husbands came up. Says Swiss: "They either talked about how their marriages were in distress because their husbands didn't help them at home, or how support from their husbands was absolutely critical since they received so little in the office...