Word: switzerland
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Kurdish separatists took hostages and attacked Turkish businesses and government offices in Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Denmark, protesting Turkey's persecution of its Kurdish population. One Kurd was killed when protesters tried to storm the Turkish embassy in Bern, Switzerland...
...Albert Eschenmoser, professor of organic chemistry at the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland...
...organic chemist educated in Switzerland, Eschenmoser has conducted research there for almost 40 years. He was appointed professor of organic chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1965, and elected to the Foreign Association of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A...
...Like anything which you love to do, it's a little sad to leave it," he said. But he will continue his experimentation at the high energy particle collider in Geneva, Switzerland. "One misses the teaching, but as you get older, you can't do everything anymore," he said...
...Hogue must have realized that he would have to serve at least one year of his five-year larceny sentence back in Utah. He applied for a one-year deferment, claiming this time that he needed to care for his mother, whom he said was dying of leukemia in Switzerland. Evidently, Hogue's fictitious mother had risen from her Bolivian grave only to travel to Europe and contract cancer...