Word: switzerland
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They were wrong. As it happened, Butler was in the middle of rewriting the software last October to accommodate the spectrometer's newly heightened sensitivity when a disconcerting flood of E-mail started pouring in. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, had just detected a planet circling the star 51 Pegasi, lying 45 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Says Queloz: "We first thought that our instrument was faulty, but repeated verifications and computations finally convinced us that we had bagged a planet...
...them in the exchange's bank account in McAllen, Texas. Then, with the help of two directors at the American Express Bank International in Beverly Hills, California, the money was wired to the Manhattan accounts of Cayman Islands holding companies, and from there to investments stretching from Texas to Switzerland. In this way, the real owners of the money were hidden from tax men and regulators...
...views the current budget debate in Congress with disgust. Priorities and personal ambitions are clashing in a troublesome turmoil, and the losers will be the elderly, the sick and the poor. The leaders of Congress--specifically Gingrich--should remember their responsibilities and set a good example. CHRISTOPH BUXTORF Basel, Switzerland...
...mishmash of astrology and health regimens professing to trace some of its ideas back to the Knights Templar, an order of Crusaders. By late 1994, the directions his sect was taking became horribly clear when Jouret and 52 fellow Templars were found dead as part of mass immolations in Switzerland and Quebec...
...then ignited the bodies before turning their revolvers on themselves. The charred corpses were discovered on Dec. 23 outside the village of St.-Pierre-de-Cherennes in southeastern France. The killings were a grisly replay of the murder-suicides that claimed the lives of 53 Solar Temple members in Switzerland and Quebec last year...