Word: switzerland
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Italy is a favorite to create another masterpiece in Euro 2008, which is being hosted this year - with restrained enthusiasm - by Austria and Switzerland. The Italians, of course, are not a sure thing. They will be challenged by France - whom they defeated in the World Cup final - the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Croatia ... in other words, the usual suspects. (Four years ago, Greece miraculously beat stratospheric odds to win, a performance unlikely to be repeated.) And as is also now usual, the tournament will be followed on televisions not just in Europe, but everywhere from Kunming, China to - well, to Kearney...
Normally placid Switzerland has been caught up in uncharacteristic intrigue since the government announced that it secretly destroyed highly technical blueprints for producing nuclear weapons. At a press conference on May 23, President Pascal Couchepin said the documents had been shredded to prevent them from falling into terrorists' hands. "The information contained in these papers presented a considerable risk to the security of Switzerland and the international community as a whole," he said...
...Others have expressed concern over the way the Federal Council - Switzerland's executive government - has unilaterally handled this matter, bypassing the courts and parliament. "If the government wanted to act on behalf of the U.S, it needed to maintain as much secrecy as possible in case those documents really were a threat to the security of the state," says Thomas Fleiner, director of the Federalism Institute at Fribourg University. "But such an evaluation should have been done by the court and not by the executive branch...
Block, who has been with the daily evening news program she still co-hosts for two decades, was only partly joking. After receiving her undergraduate degree, the French History and Literature concentrator deferred her admission to Yale Law School for a year to study in Switzerland on a Fulbright grant. The following year, still harboring doubts, she deferred once more. And a year later, she tried to do it again...
...problem of world food shortage can be solved by simply growing more food. With the world population expected to reach 9 billion by mid-century, which will stress every resource on Earth, we need to begin discussing some of the taboos around curbing population growth. John Noble, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND...