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DIED. LEO STERNBACH, 97, chemist and inventor of the widely used antianxiety drug Valium; at home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Born in Austria and educated in Poland, he began his career with Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in Switzerland before coming to the U.S. Sternbach collected 241 patents in his career; he also developed the tranquilizer Librium, the sleeping pill Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad to control bleeding during surgery...
...strong winds and wide-open sea views that make it an ideal host for the America's Cup qualifying races, which take place Sept. 28 to Oct. 9. The competition, which dates back to 1851, has grown in global popularity, with teams from Italy, New Zealand and 2003 winners Switzerland battling for the title of sailing's best. The Trapani preraces are part of a restructured lineup of annual contests that lead to the finals in Valencia, Spain, in 2007. Trapani's historic port is spruced up for the event with wine bars and VIP tents, while the peculiar sight...
...whisky. Henny, tall and elegant, was quieter but irrepressibly kind. They never had children and argued frequently, in German, yet they remained devoted. Henny quit her well-paid office job to focus on Shanti's needs. He underwrote her passion for clothes and took her on yearly vacations to Switzerland (they never returned to Germany). Fortunately, there is more to Two Lives than two lives. Henny and Shanti neatly spanned the 20th century (they were both born in 1908; she died in 1989, he in 1998) and Two Lives is a pocket history of those tumultuous times - from the Indian...
...links with Cotecna, the company at the center of the influence-peddling inquiry. In late 1998, U.N. sources say, Kojo, son of U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, got a $3,000 loan from a friend for a down payment on a sporty green Mercedes ML 320 in Geneva, Switzerland. The friend was Michael Wilson, then a vice president of Cotecna, the firm that not only employed Kojo but also won millions of dollars in U.N. contracts, including one, signed within two months after the down payment was made, to monitor the oil-for-food program in Iraq. About the same...
...international glitterati, may be the last place that springs to mind when planning a summer getaway, but anyone still hoping to snatch a late break will find it as sumptuous in summer as it is in ski season. Blessed with majestic views over the lush Alpine slopes of Switzerland's Upper Engadine valley, St. Moritz is thoroughly civilized: yachting and water sports on crystal-blue lakes; hiking in the dry, sparkling champagne climate; long cycle rides or drives along winding mountain roads. "People don't want to bake on the beach the whole time," says Rahal Bigger-Morf...