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...event, which has been available for viewing since Feb. 14 and will be available until March 31, was inspired by a similar Swiss exhibit in the same airport last year...
...right: fish, scientists, film history, and “extraterrestrial beasts.” Include a car chase and Jessica Alba in leather and it’s a perfectly good summer blockbuster. The “science” article ends with an interview with the Swiss artist who created the alien, H. R. Giger, apparently just to make sure he doesn’t have a secret background in ichthyology...
...Thailand, Great Britain, India and the U.S., he begins to acknowledge what he and all of us were aware of from the start: there is no single road to happiness. Heavy drinking, for instance, seems a benign diversion in Iceland but has ground Moldova to a depressed halt. The Swiss consistently say they are happy, but Weiner finds the country well run and well behaved to the point that two dogs he observes in a park one afternoon are "not on leashes but don't attempt to run off. They are Swiss dogs...
...injunction, effectively rebooting the site. The prior order "raises issues regarding possible infringement of protections afforded to the public by the First Amendment," he said. Beyond those issues, the judge expressed doubt that a Bay Area court held jurisdiction over a squabble between the Cayman Islands branch of a Swiss bank and a global confederation of whistle-blowers whose Net domain is owned by John Shipton, an Australian national residing in Kenya...
...public and private sector. From 1999 to 2006, he served as the vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Following his time in government, Ferguson, who also holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard, became the chairman of Swiss Re American Holding Corp., a leading reinsurance company. The University also announced that Pauline Yu ’71, president of the American Council of Learned Studies and former dean of the humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles, would succeed Lee as the vice chair of the board?...