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...altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can help treat the problem...
Simmons said having Leonard Bernstein compose and teach a song for the Krokodiloes in his Manhattan apartment during the early 1980s was one of the most memorable moments of his career. Another high point for Simmons was performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland...
Funny he should put it that way. One reason that Buchanan is so susceptible now to charges of extremism is that name calling has been his lifelong stock-in-trade. This is a man who can make Switzerland sound like Transylvania and turn GATT into another kind of four-letter word. Among TV talk-show conservatives, Buchanan emerged as the foremost belligerent power because when he talks, no niceties are observed. Race and immigration? "If we had to take a million immigrants in, say, Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier...
...gurus, he spoke admiringly of an obscure German economist named Wilhelm Ropke, who died in 1966. But Ropke would probably have mixed feelings about Buchanan's populism. The economist served on Germany's unemployment commission until Hitler took power in 1933 and fired him. Ropke went into exile in Switzerland but in the late 1940s served as a top adviser to Ludwig Erhard, architect of Germany's "economic miracle." Ropke warned of "the tendency for the increasingly centralized state of our times to surround like a parasitical vine both society and economy." In books such as A Humane Economy...
They were wrong. As it happened, Butler was in the middle of rewriting the software last October to accommodate the spectrometer's newly heightened sensitivity when a disconcerting flood of E-mail started pouring in. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, had just detected a planet circling the star 51 Pegasi, lying 45 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Says Queloz: "We first thought that our instrument was faulty, but repeated verifications and computations finally convinced us that we had bagged a planet...