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...mountains have become voracious. Last week avalanches in the Austrian resort towns of Galtur and Valzur killed 38 people. Slides have also struck Chamonix in France and the Valais region in Switzerland. This season more than 70 people have died in Europe, which has seen some of the heaviest snowstorms of the past 40 years. Heavy new snow falling on older snow, strong winds and changing temperatures are conditions favorable to avalanches. In Austria, the snowslides roared through the center of the two towns, crushing houses, cars and people. The avalanches have been so frequent and the weather so horrendous...
...will the world economy and particularly the financial sector perform in 1999? A five-member TIME Board of Economists gathered earlier this month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to give predictions. Their views were a finely balanced mix of relief, short-term optimism and long-term anxiety...
There's no doubt that reform is needed. In September the Swiss senate granted the I.O.C. a tax abatement worth $1.5 million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...
Both Shewchuk, who leads the nation with 16 goals this season, and Botterill, who is second on the team with 12 goals, will be playing with the Canadian Under-22 Team in Germany and Switzerland. The Crimson (10-1-0, 8-1-0 ECAC) has dominated the league during its current seven-game winning streak, outscoring its opponents by a combined 49-7, but most of that scoring came from the two Canadians...
REWARD FOR A "RIGHTEOUS GENTILE" Christoph Meili, a watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, tasted fame in January 1997 when he revealed that the bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group...