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...League colleges. In fact, many of the kids I grew up with became doctors, lawyers, college professors, social workers and journalists. A lot of kids who grow up rich never learn to develop their minds or work as hard as the "underprivileged" kids. Lisa Beth Durham, OLLON, SWITZERLAND...
...graduate work at Georgetown, and not Princeton, several of the kids in our project did go on to Ivy League colleges. A lot of kids who grow up rich never learn to develop their minds or work as hard as the "underprivileged" kids. Lisa Beth Durham, Ollon, Switzerland...
...plays a role in what we call mate choice," says Peter Donnelly, director of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. But GenePartner is betting that the lovelorn will give it a shot. For now, for $99, you can order a kit, swab your cheek, mail it to Switzerland and get your GenePartner ID. You can then be matched with anybody in the GenePartner database. Eventually, you'll be able to take your ID with you from dating site to dating site. Or post it on, say, Facebook. "You could see who in your network you're genetically compatible with...
...book, Strokes of Genius, L. Jon Wertheim reconstructs the 2008 Wimbledon final between Switzerland's Roger Federer and Spain's Rafael Nadal. That epic match - which took more than seven waterlogged hours to complete and ended with a Nadal victory in near darkness - is widely considered to be the greatest tennis match ever played. Strokes of Genius uses the match as a scaffolding to talk about the two tennis greats, their rivalry and the sport's beauty. TIME caught up with Wertheim, Sports Illustrated's tennis writer, as he prepared to cover Wimbledon 2009, which began on June...
...long-term church relations. For the Society is now preparing to openly defy the Holy See again. The group has announced that on June 27, three new priests and three deacons will be ordained at its seminary in southern Germany, with plans for further ordinations at its headquarters in Switzerland and in Winona, Minn. Such unauthorized ordinations are indeed reminiscent of what led to the schism in the first place. (See pictures from the ongoing reign of Pope Benedict...