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Most of the park's attractions will be familiar to veterans of the California and Florida venues, though some have been retooled and upgraded. La Cabane des Robinson (Swiss Family Robinson Tree House) includes cunning new cave trails of "rock" artfully sculpted by the Disney team. Pirates of the Caribbean is a spookier and more elaborate cruise among brigand lowlifes. Big Thunder Mountain has been refined into one of the great coaster rides, with new ascents and dips and two hurtling trips in the dark...
...BEER DRINKERS GET BEER BELLIES? IT'S OBvious: beer, like alcohol in general, is full of calories. Except that the obvious is only part of the story. The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that Swiss physiologists have found that alcohol not only adds calories to the diet but also keeps the body from burning dietary fat properly. Booze in the bloodstream can slow down fat metabolism more than 30% -- though it speeds up the burning of carbohydrates. When fat isn't metabolized, it gets deposited on thighs, hips, stomach and other embarrassing parts of the body. So while...
Nestle outfought Italy's Agnelli family last week in a trans-European bidding battle over Source Perrier of France -- but the victory may get the Swiss food giant into, well, hot water. Suspecting a violation of European Community competition rules, the E.C. Mergers Task Force in Brussels has opened an investigation into the $2.7 billion takeover...
...Christianity overarching all of society -- nor, one hopes, the resurgence of what might be called the Bible Belt Inquisition. But we may be heading into an age when faith will again be taken seriously, and when it will again play a major part in our existence. As the Swiss-born theologian Hans Kung says, "Ethics must again become public instead of merely personal...
...picture with him. Athletes are role models, he tells a passerby, and should speak out more about the environment, the nuclear threat, the depletion of our energy sources. Last night, he goes on excitedly, he not only went to an ice- hockey game but even got two pretty Swiss girls to autograph his ticket! Teruel, a Philippine-American, seems like any other voluble, idealistic 22- year-old student with braces on his teeth and a hundred dreams at home. He is also the entire Philippine Olympics team in the 1992 Winter Games...