Word: switzerland
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...answer may be in the genes. That's the tantalizing conclusion of a team of researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. They have discovered that genes associated with the formation of fins in fish are the same ones that orchestrate the development of paws in mice. "Think of a mouse as a fish with limbs, or a fish as a mouse with fins," says University of Geneva developmental biologist Denis Duboule. "What a mouse does is take a fin and put something extra...
...That was what was explained to us, and we then had a very deep confidence in what they were explaining. And I believed that just because of habit. One detail reported in the press: a Muslim girl who was pregnant by rape got shelter in a hospital in Switzerland. An abortion was not possible, and when the child was born, it happened to be Negro. No Serb was a Negro...
...Americans to become involved in what is still a regional conflict (except as part of nato). European leaders are again proving that they were born with a wishbone instead of a backbone. Every second, minute or day the war continues is a crime against humanity. Joel Savitz Leysin, Switzerland...
...gambler, though he won and lost with bad grace. He once publicly cajoled a man to pay a lost wager of $1,000. When the man wrote the check, Vesco further shamed him by auctioning the draft to the crowd for $200. He bought houses in Costa Rica and Switzerland, a yacht and a Boeing 707, which he outfitted with an office, bedrooms and a discotheque. To the annoyance of his neighbors, he built a heliport on his home property in suburban New Jersey. He liked to try to get away with things. He once bought his wife...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...