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...Slam event, but, in those early August games, the young Serbian player had done one of the toughest things in pro tennis today: he had consecutively defeated three of the world's best players: Andy Roddick of the U.S., Rafael Nadal of Spain and, most astonishingly, Roger Federer of Switzerland. But as the announcer at the Roger's Cup declared Novak Djokovic the champion, he introduced the young man as a native of Croatia, Serbia's less than friendly neighbor. That's like saying a Pakistani is an Indian or an Irishman an Englishman. Serbs all over the world bristled...
When anyone cries "supernatural," neuroscientists have long rushed to find a natural cause. Now comes a study in Science that re-creates the sensation of being outside your body. Scientists in the U.K. and Switzerland had subjects wear virtual-reality goggles in which their own images appeared, then rubbed their backs with a stick while rubbing the virtual selves with a virtual stick. Sure enough, the subjects thought the fake image was the real them...
...second experiment was conducted at Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in Switzerland, by a team including neurologist Olaf Blanke, whose work with out-of-body experiences suggests that their neural underpinnings reside in the brain's temporo-parietal junction. Blanke and his colleagues had participants watch their own backs being stroked - either through a video feed coming live to their eyes or through one coming slightly out of synch. Afterward, the participants were blindfolded and asked to return to their original place in the room; on average, those who had had the in-synch physical stimuli - and, thus, the real...
...billion Westport, Conn., hedge fund, to an impending General Electric purchase of Heller Financial. That someone, Aguirre soon believed, was most likely none other than John Mack. Pequot's CEO Arthur J. Samberg, according to the Senate report, was one of the first people Mack contacted after returning from Switzerland in late June of 2001, where Mack had interviewed to become CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston (now Credit Suisse), which happened to be advising Heller on the GE acquisition. (Morgan Stanley, where Mack had served a first stint as CEO until March 2001, was working the other side...
...Iraq's borders and prevent a regional conflict. Iraq's neighbors and the world powers should launch an intensive diplomatic effort to help the Iraqis sort out their disagreements. They are best qualified to construct the democratic unified nation they aspire to after Saddam Hussein. Samih A. Sherif, Montreux, Switzerland...