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Gabrielse and his team make their anti-matter at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland...
...international meeting scheduled concurrently with the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in an attempt to provide an alternative for groups and individuals interested in what Chomsky described as “global justice, social futures and international immigration...
...wryly pessimistic about bold attempts at social engineering. "The charge will simply shift congestion [elsewhere]," says Gary Jennings, a self-employed removal man. "Ken's a bit naive if he thinks this is going to sort out the congestion problems." Concludes Bernhard Oehry, a traffic consultant in Switzerland: "There's a reasonable chance it won't work." Europe's leaders have embraced the policy goal of making life miserable for drivers partly because we were doing such a good job of it ourselves. Last August, French families leaving for vacation were trapped in jams clogging nearly 800 km of roadway...
...credit-card swipe as a deposit. CARS First it crawls through your commute, then it lounges expensively for, on average, 22 hours a day. What are you paying for? Well, you don't need to own a car to enjoy one. An estimated 100,000 Europeans - mainly in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands - now belong to car-sharing schemes. Once an eco-driven niche, in Germany it's now a moneywise move in over 200 cities. Opt as well to live in a car-free housing development such as the 450-resident one in Floridsdorf, Vienna, and instead...
These days, Libeskind has commissions that include major additions to museums in London, Toronto, San Francisco and Denver; a university media center in Hong Kong; and a shopping and housing complex in Switzerland. That Denver, let alone the staid, pragmatic Beijing government that rules Hong Kong, is welcoming some of the most radical design ideas in the world is another sign of how much change is in the air. Libeskind is happy but not surprised. "People want to see something that reflects the excitement of life," he says. "If you look at how much is happening in the sciences...