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...SWITZERLAND...
...borrow. And if you take the advance the day after the previous billing cycle closes, you can wind up holding on to that $10,000 for nearly two months without incurring interest. All for $20. In that case, the effective annual rate you're paying is less than 1.5%. Switzerland can't borrow that cheaply...
...soul in today's diversified world. I wake up to the sound of my Japanese clock radio, put on a T shirt sent me by an uncle in Nigeria and walk out into the street, past German cars, to my office. Around me are English-language students from Korea, Switzerland and Argentina -- all on this Spanish-named road in this Mediterranean-style town. On TV, I find, the news is in Mandarin; today's baseball game is being broadcast in Korean. For lunch I can walk to a sushi bar, a tandoori palace, a Thai cafe or the newest burrito...
...massive a scientific enterprise. Probably not without help, says Erich Bloch, former head of the National Science Foundation: "There's no single country, including ours, that can afford such a big project." In the future, U.S. scientists will have to rely more on international partnerships. A model is the Switzerland-based CERN laboratory, a consortium financed by 18 countries that is building its own giant accelerator. The large hadron collider will be only 40% as powerful as the SSC, but has a good chance of doing comparable science. That won't be much consolation, though, to the people who converged...
...late '70s, Davis' pal Quincy Jones began urging him to revisit the Evans sessions, but for 15 years Davis declined. Then, at age 65, perhaps sensing that his time was running out, he relented. At the famous jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland, Jones assembled the original Evans scores and led the orchestra with Davis on solo. The result, Miles & Quincy Live at Montreux, is Davis' final live album. Recorded only weeks before he died, it is an excruciatingly openhearted struggle by a master defiantly raging against the dying of the light...