Word: switzerland
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...Despite his fame, he retains more than traces of the innocent who left home at 14 to live elsewhere in Switzerland where the practice was better, and who ached with homesickness most nights. Superlative tennis has always been in him, but until recently his mind was getting in the way. "I had to change. I had many problems," he says, chronicling battles with nerves, temper and apathy. "I was fighting with myself to get the attitude right on the court." It took 18 months' work with a "mental trainer" to put him into the zone...
...players accustomed to North America's narrower rinks and more aggressive play. But many are relishing the experience. "The biggest thing is the ice surface; it gives you that much more time with the puck," says Rick Nash, the 20-year-old Columbus Blue Jackets' left-winger, currently with Switzerland's HC Davos. "And you'll go back hopefully a better skater." The money's not too bad, either - at least for the best players. Jagr, who has kept his signature jersey No. 68, a reminder of the 1968 crushing of the Prague Spring by Soviet troops, is reportedly earning...
...computer program includes bells from France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Georgia, Japan and a host of other countries around the globe. Tutschku, who knows seven different languages, also created some of the sounds himself using sound modeling software...
...Arryx is one of 29 Technology Pioneers chosen this year by the World Economic Forum, the nonprofit organization of global political and business leaders best known for its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Selected from among 114 nominees by a panel of technology experts, the Pioneers' biotech developments augur advances that will help people live longer, healthier, more productive lives. Pioneers like Arryx; Astex, a biotech firm in Cambridge, England; Raven Biotechnologies and Xencor, both in California; and Memory Pharmaceuticals of Montvale, New Jersey, are targeting cancer, Alzheimer's, nutrition, animal husbandry - you name it. Their innovations are a testimony...
WHAT'S IT LIKE BEING A BIN LADEN AFTER 9/11? Very difficult. I had to defend myself. The Attorney General of Switzerland decided to come one day uninvited. He took away cartons and cartons of documents. I understand that after Sept. 11 there was lots of suspicion and that everybody wanted to check everything. The investigation has finished, the file has been closed, and nothing was ever found...