Word: switzerland
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...first album in 12 years, Djup Andetag (Deep Breath). It's in Swedish, so the songs may prove blessedly less tenacious than ABBA hits like S.O.S. Since the band broke up, Lyngstad, who's married to Italian architect Prince Ruzzo Reuss, has worked with environmental and antidrug causes in Switzerland. Agnetha Faltskog has lived in heavily guarded seclusion in Stockholm, and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have been working on music projects. Lyngstad's not the only one resurfacing. Faltskog will publish an autobiography and greatest-hits CD this month. You've been warned...
...financial rewards that contemporary society ungrudgingly offers players of sports, games and music in comparison with the recompense given workers in sustaining occupations like farming, construction, teaching and transportation. In making play incredibly more profitable than work, hasn't society got its values upside down? Oduro Asante Versoix, Switzerland Via E-mail...
DIED. RAFAEL KUBELIK, 82, Bohemian-born maestro; in Lucerne, Switzerland. Son of renowned violinist Jan Kubelik, he became, at 27, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra in Prague. Seeking artistic freedom, he left Czechoslovakia when it went communist in 1948. Over the years he led the Chicago Symphony and Munich's Bavarian Radio Symphony...
...month, which had been his last public appearance before today. Though he spoke slowly and not without an effort, he did not seem to have the distinctive slur that marred the delivery of his Presidential oath at the inauguration ceremony." Yeltsin dismissed rumors that he would seek treatment in Switzerland, and hinted that he might do without the longer vacation that he had planned. It is not the first time that Yeltsin has mastered all his enormous native strength, pulling himself together just when it seemed he was down for the count. "The most remarkable recoveries took place in July...
...Taggants are like fingerprints or bar codes. Mixed with gunpowder and other explosive agents, they can identify the manufacturer, the point of sale or theft, and provide other useful information. They were invented by a Minnesota chemist in 1973 and for the past 11 years their mandatory use in Switzerland has helped Swiss police solve more than 500 explosives cases. But adding taggants to black and smokeless gunpowder in the U.S.--the materials common in many unsophisticated bombs--is still prohibited...