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...hardly alone?even in his own city. According to government officials, three other envelopes delivered in Karachi in the past two weeks have tested positive for anthrax spores. The other two recipients were an unnamed business and the Habib Bank A.G. Zurich. In Lahore, meanwhile, the American consulate received an envelope that tested positive. Government officials point out there are no facilities capable of producing high-grade anthrax in Pakistan, which suggests a foreign origin. At Karachi's main international post office, postal workers have been provided with gloves, though no other precautions have been taken...
...intends to become less politically correct as he gets older. He turned 80 last year and is selling better than ever. Earlier this month "Sex and Landscapes," the first commercial sale of Newton's work in two years, opened at the De Pury et Luxembourg Art gallery in Zurich. Even before the opening, some 40 prints sold for $30,000 each. This fall the Mary Boone Gallery in New York will also have a Newton sale, making it the art dealer's first photography offering. At De Pury is some of the usual titillating stuff, but also 54 landscapes never...
...TSTW could count the ways, from Argentina to Zurich, from anemia in the eurozone to the fall of the house of the Rising Sun, that there might still be a bear out there. But merely coming back to work from a three-day weekend is depressing enough - we?ll wait for the economic reports of fall to tell that tale. And at least the investors seem so happy to be back...
...tribe is based, all that's really certain is that Manser was very close to giving up on Sarawak and his Penan friends. "He said this was his last trip," says Graf, who abandoned the struggle in 1996; he now works as an administrator and publicist for the Zurich Zoo. "He told me, 'If I don't do it this time the battle is lost...
...central problem of the international marketplace is simply put: "There's no clear growth locomotive right now," says economist David Hale of Zurich Kemper. In the past 20 years, we've got used to the idea that, at any one time, at least one of the world's three largest economies--the U.S., the European Union and Japan--would be doing fine, so that even if growth sputtered elsewhere, there wouldn't be a disaster. The global economy showed the virtues of asymmetry during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Fiscal and monetary corsets constrained Europeans as they prepared...