Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even some of those who volunteered seem to be having second thoughts. "When I registered, it was more of an idea," says Dr. Bernard Hirschel of Geneva, Switzerland, who had not discussed his decision with his wife and children. "[The organizers] did not even talk about a vaccine that was ready for testing." Perhaps not. But by putting their bodies on the line, Hirschel and the growing ranks of other volunteers may have brought Desrosiers' unfinished vaccine one step closer...
...year period ending July 31, 1997, U.S. stocks rose an average annual 15.3%, including dividends. But Switzerland's market rose 16.2%, Sweden's 16.9%, the Netherlands' 17.7% and Hong Kong's a blistering 19.5%, according to Morgan Stanley Capital International. All those returns are in dollar terms, meaning that's how U.S. investors would have fared after adjusting for the dreaded currency moves...
...world today is one big capitalist playpen, and there are some pretty good companies in most corners of the globe. Want to invest in the world's largest pharmaceutical company? It's Switzerland's Novartis, not U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson or Merck. Have a taste for the planet's biggest food company? It's Netherlands-based Unilever, not home-baked RJR Nabisco or Sara Lee. Biggest farm-equipment maker? It's Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, not Caterpillar or Deere. Metal goods? Try France's Pechiney, not Alcoa...
...horsey set, who like to enjoy their perquisites in peace, the killing has caused quite an upheaval. Cummings and her sister are daughters of Samuel Cummings, a former CIA employee who has been described as one of the world's largest private arms dealers. The girls were born in Switzerland, but they moved in 1983 to the rolling farm their father bought for them. Friends say both sisters are reclusive but that Susan was the more introverted. "Fragile" and "gentle" are typical words for her. Clerks at the shops in Warrenton say she rarely smiled and usually let Villegas...
...Fayed did not share his father's relentless pursuit of British approbation. From an early age he had a flair for the cosmopolitan, moving comfortably among Egyptian, French, Greek, American and British friends. He was educated at the St. Mark's school in Egypt, the Le Rosey school in Switzerland and the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Childhood friends remember him as pleasant and well bred, and touched by loneliness, owing in part to his parents' divorce. Says Zizette Kishk, a family friend from Alexandria: "He was a very shy and quiet boy who had somewhat...