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...Gallen, a conservative provincial town one hour east of Zurich, the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) had its campaign posters - bearing the caricatured features of a black man and the slogan the SWISS ARE THE NEGROES OF SWITZERLAND - all ready to go. But amid accusations of racism, party officials withdrew the posters from their campaign for national parliamentary elections...
...likely, so the delicate balance that has made Swiss governments so stable for the past 44 years probably won't be upset. "We'll be satisfied to get additional seats in Parliament to boost our voting power," says Panayides. Passing out election leaflets on the rain-soaked streets of Zurich, Secondos Plus candidate Katumba also appears confident. "The Swiss are smart enough not to panic," says Katumba, a product manager for an Internet company. "We can't go back to the way it used to be 50 years ago." He seems to have persuaded Petra Brunner, 22. "The fact that...
...lights went out in lots of places during the blackout of 2003, but they were burning brightly in Zurich, home of engineering giant ABB. The company expects to earn up to $2 billion as the U.S. reinvests in its glitchy power grid. ABB claims more than 60% of the market for the electric-transmission and -distribution equipment that needs renovation or replacement. "This isn't going to happen overnight," says Randy Schrieber, vice president of ABB's U.S. Power Technologies division. "But the impetus that the utility companies have shown from the blackout bodes well for us." This promising news...
...target, a Claire's Accessories shop. Nevertheless, 20 or so people made it inside and the mob was born. "The biggest shock is how it spread," says Bill. "Within days people started groups in other cities." Now it has infiltrated much of Europe as well. So far, Dublin, Amsterdam, Zurich and Vienna have had mobs. But no European country has embraced the mob quite like Germany, where 20 cities have staged mobs. "Germans are not usually spontaneous and this gives them a frame for a moment of craziness," says Anne Urbauer, a journalist in Munich. "It's a short escape...
...purposes--and business owners who agree to host the boxes are often just as clueless. "Never, never did they mention they were making money off of it," says Kathleen Murtz, who accepted a request from the company to place a bin outside her home-decor boutique in Lake Zurich, Ill. "If I had known they were going to sell the clothing for profit, I wouldn't have gotten involved...