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...study, published in the Oct. 8 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers at Geneva University in Switzerland reviewed the medical records of 844 patients diagnosed with localized, early-stage prostate cancer between 1989 and 1998: 158 patients received prostatectomy, or surgical removal of all or part of the walnut-sized prostate gland; 205 underwent radiation, either alone or in conjunction with hormone therapy; 72 got hormone therapy alone; 378 were managed with watchful waiting, which entails monitoring disease progression and pursuing treatment if the condition worsens; and 31 were given other treatment combinations...
After all your advocacy work to help Darfur, why do you think the situation is not improving? -Antoinette Vermilye, Crans-près-céligny, Switzerland[Sudanese President] Omar al-Bashir doesn't have any incentive to do anything else. We can't sanction Sudan because we don't do trade with it. And al-Bashir can frame any peace-keeping mission as a Western invasion of another Muslim country. So people like the Chinese, who do business with these guys, have to say, "We're not going to trade with you anymore. You guys are going to have...
...more complex than most restitution claims. Nathan and his brother Benjamin were not just private owners, but dealers with a thriving art gallery in their hometown of Dieren in the east of the country. They continued to buy and sell art throughout the war, even if from Basel, Switzerland, where Nathan moved his family in 1942. Many of their dealings were with Nazi art procurer Alois Miedl, who bought art for Hermann Goering and others. "Everyone says Nathan Katz's sales were voluntary, that he collaborated," says Cees van Hoore, a reporter for the Haarlems Dagblad who broke the story...
...fraction of the country's likely killers - is a challenge. "International justice does not come cheap," says Roland Amoussouga, spokesman for the ICTR. Tribunal funds have had to cover everything from locating and indicting the suspects to negotiating their transfer - from countries as far-flung as Cameroon and Zambia, Switzerland and the U.S. - and then hosting long and complicated trials. More than 2,000 witnesses have been flown in to the trial site in Arusha, says Amoussouga. One trial is now in its sixth year...
...Liechtenstein that Switzerland accidentally invaded, not Luxembourg. (See fact...