Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That same spring, I applied for a summer job in Geneva. I felt certain that I would get it, and spent the whole of May waiting to hear. May came and went, but I didn't hear from the people in Switzerland. And so I found myself home in Oxnard, California--Strawberry and Lima Bean Capital of the World, summer training home of the L.A. Raiders and probably the only place in the universe named after bull testicles--with no job and no pecuniary prospects for the summer. Fate, in the guise of Scott, my best friend from high school...
...theater had supposedly been built on an Indian burial ground, and an Indian chief was reputed to haunt theater number 6, but before I could begin a proper investigation, I received a call from Switzerland telling me that I had the job. Despite the fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with...
...between the nation's two largest hospital chains, first-ranked Columbia/HCA and second-ranked HealthTrust Inc., taking the rapid consolidation of American health services to a new level. The new $15 billion behemoth will have 320 hospitals and more than 100 outpatient surgery centers in 36 states, England and Switzerland. HealthTrust becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia/HCA, which was founded just 8 years ago by chief executive Richard Scott. The companies claim that by combining, they will be better positioned to control costs...
Though not zany, Chistoph H. Luthy, Lowell House resident tutor in the History of Science, is "always looking for the intellectual punch line," in the words of Henry B. Nguyen '95. Luthy calls his native Switzerland an "uncharismatic nation," but he is definitely not devoid of charisma. "H genuinely cares for his tutees and their well-being," says Rene Reyes '95, "and he's done things well beyond the call of duty." In fact, when Reyes couldn't afford the flight home to Texas over Spring break his sophomore year, Luthy arranged for him to fly home in the plane...
...Surely it must have leaped out of a monster movie, you say, or the caverns of ancient myth. But, no, this strange beast crawled--actually it flew--out of the pages of the august journal Science last week. In a new study, researchers from the University of Basel in Switzerland described how they genetically engineered swarms of bizarre fruit flies-not as an attention-grabbing stunt but as part of a serious effort to understand how nature fashions something as magnificent...