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Austria is to alpine skiing what Switzerland is to money: small but powerful, and more than a match for the U.S., not to mention the rest of the schussing world. The Austrians have dominated skiing in recent years, whereas the last American man to win an Olympic Alpine gold was Tommy Moe in 1994. In general, U.S. downhillers have made the nation's soccer players look downright Brazilian...
DIED. NORMAN GRANZ, 83, one-man jazz-promoting machine who founded Verve Records and in 1944 created the touring group Jazz at the Philharmonic, which included such members as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker; in Geneva, Switzerland...
...SWITZERLAND A Global Epidemic AIDS is spreading faster in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union than anywhere else in the world, according to a report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva. The virus continues to plague Africa, where it has killed more than 2 million people this year. Cambodia, Thailand and Uganda won praise for their prevention campaigns. But unaids executive director Peter Piot said that the crisis "will get worse before it gets better" and warned of complacency in the West. The report came out in advance of World AIDS Day, which...
Everyone Else Applying For This Seminar on Genevan Sculpture Went to Boarding School in Switzerland: You Hayseed Midwestern Bitch...
...hottest real estate in Switzerland right now might well be the country's estimated 261,418 bomb shelters. Ever since the cold war, the Swiss have been required either to have a bomb shelter in their homes or to pay roughly $900 for a place in a communal bunker. (The 1962 law states: "For every Swiss, a shelter.") Over the years, as fears over nuclear attacks faded, these shelters have morphed into storage closets, wine cellars, saunas, bars, bowling alleys and - at least in one case - a massive pizza oven...