Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wake of the supercollider's demise manyscientists hope to be able to go to Europe andwork with a smaller version of the SSC--the LargeHadiron Collider (LHC)--in Geneva, Switzerland...
...SWITZERLAND...
...borrow. And if you take the advance the day after the previous billing cycle closes, you can wind up holding on to that $10,000 for nearly two months without incurring interest. All for $20. In that case, the effective annual rate you're paying is less than 1.5%. Switzerland can't borrow that cheaply...
...soul in today's diversified world. I wake up to the sound of my Japanese clock radio, put on a T shirt sent me by an uncle in Nigeria and walk out into the street, past German cars, to my office. Around me are English-language students from Korea, Switzerland and Argentina -- all on this Spanish-named road in this Mediterranean-style town. On TV, I find, the news is in Mandarin; today's baseball game is being broadcast in Korean. For lunch I can walk to a sushi bar, a tandoori palace, a Thai cafe or the newest burrito...
...massive a scientific enterprise. Probably not without help, says Erich Bloch, former head of the National Science Foundation: "There's no single country, including ours, that can afford such a big project." In the future, U.S. scientists will have to rely more on international partnerships. A model is the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory, a consortium financed by 18 countries that is building its own giant accelerator. The large hadron collider will be only 40% as powerful as the SSC, but has a good chance of doing comparable science. That won't be much consolation, though, to the people who converged...