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Gabriel Aeppli was born in Switzerland, but when he was 1 year old, his father came to the U.S. to pursue a career as a mathematician. Back then, America was a scientific "city on the hill," a place where enormous resources, academic freedom, a tradition of skepticism and a history of excellence lured everyone from astronomers to zoologists from all over the world, and like Aeppli's father, many of them never had any interest in leaving...
Kirby did not originally intend to announce his resignation on Friday. He was in New York City for a meeting, and President Summers was in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum...
University President Lawrence H. Summers sounded a cautious note on the booming global economy last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he warned that adjustments are needed to ward off a major economic crisis in the near future...
...down" - a thought Rapley finds "quite repugnant." But the market price for raw copper has leapt 170% since 2003 to more than $4,800 a ton, driven by demand from countries like China and India. And with scrap prices also on a high, police in the U.S., Belgium, Poland, Switzerland and elsewhere are seeing a surge in thefts of items like copper cable and pipes. Thieves may not know much about art, but they know what they like: Moore's Reclining Figure could earn them a quick $9,000 from a chop shop...
...president is in Davos, Switzerland for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Kirby was in New York on Friday for a meeting, his spokesman, Bob Mitchell, said...