Word: switzerland
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Their balloon, the D-Caribbean, set out with 14 competitors from seven countries on Sept. 9 from Switzerland, the home of the previous year's winner. Because this would be the first Gordon Bennett race since the end of World War II in which former Soviet airspace would be accessible, organizers had contacted each of the Baltic States as well as Belarus and Ukraine to request permission for the balloons to cross their airspace. Pilots, after all, could not fully control where the winds took them. Having received approval from every government, including Belarus', the balloons ascended from Wil, near...
...search for an actual settlement is still likely to be a long one. Even as the diplomats put the final touches on their agreement, NATO warplanes were blasting Serb military targets in Bosnia for the second straight week. And the principles the parties were able to agree on in Switzerland could sink under the weight of the many issues on which they disagree...
Taylor also authored over 100 original articles and numerous international collaborations with scientists. In 1993 Taylor received an honorary doctor of medicine degree from the University of Bern, Switzerland...
Twelve of the fellows are Americans; the other nine come from seven foreign countries, including Israel, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Nigeria...
...moment despite waves of protest around the world today, TIME's Bruce Crumley reports. This afternoon, French navy commandos stormed two Greenpeace ships and arrested two divers near the South Pacific atoll targeted for tests. In Paris, more than 300 people were arrested as thousands demonstrated. In Switzerland, protesters occupied two diplomatic offices, and on Saturday, about 100 legislators from Japan, Europe, Australia and New Zealand plan to join up to 15,000 activists in French Polynesia. But Crumley says the protests are unlikely to budge Chirac, who claims the tests are needed to develop a computer simulation that will...