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...Gallen, Switzerland...
...Metro International (no relation to Associated's title) last week rolled out its own Metro in Porto, Portugal, the 56th edition since launching in Sweden 10 years ago. And 20 Minutes, set up by Norwegian media group Schibsted in 1999, is thumbed in 20 cities across France, Spain and Switzerland, racking up 5 million daily readers. The secret of the giveaways? They're free and easy. For young, urban, time-poor commuters, "It's the right product, at the right place and at the right time," says Sverre Munck, executive vice president of Schibsted and ceo of 20 Min Holding...
...glass brewing pot from a friend who has discovered that a daily tea ceremony creates an oasis in a long day of caring for an autistic child; an assortment of nut oils, wine vinegars and chocolate truffles from a pal eager to share favorite things from her home in Switzerland. And I, to my amazement, find myself overcoming my technophobia to make giveaway compilations of my current favorite songs. Are those the tokens of a midlife crisis? To me, it feels more like a midlife reappraisal, or maybe even the first hint of that traditional blessing of advancing age: wisdom...
...help visitors learn about Einstein's theories. tel: (49-30) 22 667 344; www.einsteinausstellung.de The scientist did not want his final residence at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to become a memorial, and the house is now privately owned. But his former flat in Bern, Switzerland, where he lived as a young man for nearly two years, is open to visitors. Einstein resided at Kramgasse 49 in 1905, during his annus mirabilis - the miraculous year in which he devised theories to explain Brownian motion, the photoelectric effect and special relativity (E=mc2). The then 26-year-old described...
...desire death with dignity because they are terminally ill or so severely impaired that they cannot eat or even breathe. On the other hand, the same people often do anything in their power to enforce the death penalty. What word other than hypocrisy is appropriate? Michel Berner Wallisellen, Switzerland...