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Gurdal's staff traverses the globe hunting down new finds for its customers. The store's cheeses come from France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, England and Ireland...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Life of Cheese: Say Formaggio Kitchen | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

When two people first walk down the aisle, marriage and divorce seem like distant countries, each with its own language and customs. What many couples discover, when they find themselves caught between one and the other, is that there is a stop in between--a kind of neutral Switzerland for relationships--separation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided We Stand | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Einstein's past did not come to light until more than 30 years after his death, when the first volume of his collected papers finally appeared, in 1987. Still, a mystery remains. What happened to Lieserl? And after they married, why didn't the couple bring her back to Switzerland and legitimize her birth? Was she given up for adoption, as many scholars believe, because she might have endangered Einstein's new career as a patent-office examiner in Calvinist Bern? And might she even still be alive somewhere in Serbia, a wizened relic of the great relativist's youthful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein's Lost Child | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Helped by small grants and loans, Zackheim set off on her five-year quest for Lieserl, crisscrossing Switzerland, Germany, England, Hungary and especially Serbia. Even while bombs burst, she visited Mileva's ancestral villages, seeking her kin or anyone close to her family, including Serbian Orthodox priests and nuns, and holding many hours of coffee-table conversation, to say nothing of rummaging through countless baptismal records and archives for key documents. Many of them turned out to have been lost in the endless Balkan wars; others relating directly to little Lieserl may have been destroyed by Mileva's protective father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein's Lost Child | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...international travel includes many cities in Africa, India, Italy and Switzerland and a private audience with the Pope in Rome. TIME, I invite your reporter back to the campaign trail to discuss the solutions to the challenges Baltimore will be facing in the next millennium. The citizens of Baltimore deserve more information than you provided in your article. (THE REV.) JESSICA DAVIS Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 27, 1999 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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