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...UPHILL BATTLE . . . BUT WHO WILL FOLLOW? Singer Bono of U2 and other celebs have swarmed Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, reminding the über-monied about the under monied. Bono's cause: debt relief for poor countries. Illustration for TIME by Paul Slater...
Rich was not your typical fugitive living hand to mouth and sleeping under bridges. Born in Belgium and fluent in English, French, German and Spanish, he has spent the past 17 years in Switzerland, living in splendid exile outside Zurich, protected by a coterie of private security guards from Israel and running a $30 billion business that brokers everything from oil and gold to sugar and grain. Switzerland refused to extradite him. But now that point is moot. Thanks to Clinton, the billionaire who could have faced years in prison suddenly has a clean slate...
...Rich was not your typical fugitive living hand to mouth and sleeping under bridges. Born in Belgium and fluent in English, French, German and Spanish, he has spent the past 17 years in Switzerland, living in splendid exile outside Zurich, protected by a coterie of private security guards from Israel and running a $30 billion business that brokers everything from oil and gold to sugar and grain. Switzerland refused to extradite him. But now that point is moot. Thanks to Clinton, the billionaire who could have faced years in prison suddenly has a clean slate...
...idea came out of left field. Electrical engineer Ronald Nutt and physicist David Townsend, working at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, had just taken the cover off their newly developed metabolic-imaging machine and were admiring its innards when an oncology surgeon happened by. "You have a lot of space between those detectors," he offered. "You ought to try to put something in there that would be useful...
...contrast between rich and poor," he says. He went on to earn a master's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and a Ph.D. at Birbeck College in London. In the 1960s he worked in Washington as a U.S. Foreign Service officer for Asian countries. He went to Switzerland in 1970 to coordinate the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service, an intergovernmental agency based in Geneva; married a Swiss, Ruth Griwa, and stayed...