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...Iceman, on the lookout for new pastures, began to move to higher ground. On the rims of lakes and marshes, settlers built wooden homes, some on stilts, and cultivated barley and peas. Communities of 50 to 200 people dotted the shores of Lake Constance and a number of Swiss lakes, with central buildings for social functions. These villagers evidently traveled across the Alps; parsley and peppermint from the Mediterranean region have been found in some of their Neolithic dwellings. In exchange, they may have offered daintily fashioned white stone "pearls" of Alpine limestone, which have shown up in neighboring regions...
Even when Evita does come to the aid of the lower class, she skims a percentage of the funds for deposit in her Swiss bank account...
...developed a magnetic pull to Gore, because he speaks the language of people who tend their hearts." Family counseling is not part of Gore's campaign pitch, but like many of his generation, he is clearly fascinated by the family as an institution. He talks enthusiastically about Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller, whose 1981 classic Prisoners of Childhood, renamed The Drama of the Gifted Child, argues that children deprived of unconditional love from their parents grow up with emotional hunger and injure their own offspring by repeating the pattern. He says he has also been influenced by his Harvard professor Erik...
...fall apart could lead to a population surge toward Europe and the U.S. Perhaps. On the other hand, neglecting Africa carries no immediate, urgent threat to the rest of the world. Black Africa has no nuclear powers. Why pour in more money to be misspent or rerouted to private Swiss accounts...
Mali, Liberia and Congo have announced legal moves to recover assets they say were stolen under previous one-party regimes. In the case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave...