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...scientist did not want his final residence at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to become a memorial, and the house is 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 it as the time when "a storm broke loose in my mind." The museum features original...
...world. There is ample experience to show that the public is ready to support the necessary commitments to end world poverty. If we want the U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals for aid to the poor to succeed, the goals will need greater visibility. Aziyadé Poltier-Mutal Lausanne, Switzerland...
...Baseball A Hit Baseball may not yet be a favorite in Europe, but at least one firm believes that broadcasting the U.S.'s national pastime can be a viable European business. This week Dublin-based North American Sports Network (NASN) is set to reveal agreements with cable operators in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Iceland to bring the channel's mix of baseball, basketball, ice hockey and American football to viewers. With NASN already available in Britain, Ireland and Germany, the expansion will provide nearly 20 million homes with access to its sports fare - which this week includes three opening...
...debate in Europe centers less on whether euthanasia is right or wrong than on how to regulate it. Yet there are striking differences in terminology and approach. In the Netherlands, a medical treatment can be terminated when it is no longer "meaningful." In Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal under certain conditions, euthanasia is still forbidden. In practice, though, voluntary euthanasia - when a doctor ends a patient's life with his or her consent - is common. A 2003 University of Zurich study showed that 7 out of 10 terminally ill Swiss resorted to voluntary euthanasia by, for example, ingesting...
...plan to design a new generation of nuclear arms deprives it of any moral leadership in the nuclear nonproliferation campaign. Khan's nefarious transactions made the world a more dangerous place; the development of smarter bombs by the U.S. would do the same thing. Peter Schoch Meisterschwanden, Switzerland...