Word: zuricher
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...unexpected obstacles, beginning with the finicky growing habits of the rice they had transplanted to a greenhouse near the foothills of the Swiss Alps. And when success finally came in early 1999, Potrykus, 65 and about to retire as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, faced even more formidable challenges. The golden rice that he and his colleagues developed is a product of genetic engineering, what opponents call Frankenfood. As such, it was entangled in a web of hopes and fears and political baggage, not to mention a fistful of iron-clad patents...
...That, together with al-Megrahi's trip to Malta under a false name on Dec. 20 and his association with Edwin Bollier, the Zurich electronics expert the court believes manufactured the timer for the bomb, was enough to dispel any reasonable doubt as to his guilt. The judges felt the prosecution's case was insufficient against Fhimah, former station manager for Libyan Arab Airlines in Malta. Though entries in his diary suggest he gave Air Malta luggage tags to al-Megrahi, the court wasn't convinced he was "necessarily aware" that they would be used to spirit a bomb onto...
Rich was not your typical fugitive living hand to mouth and sleeping under bridges. Born in Belgium and fluent in English, French, German and Spanish, he has spent the past 17 years in Switzerland, living in splendid exile outside Zurich, protected by a coterie of private security guards from Israel and running a $30 billion business that brokers everything from oil and gold to sugar and grain. Switzerland refused to extradite him. But now that point is moot. Thanks to Clinton, the billionaire who could have faced years in prison suddenly has a clean slate...
...Rich was not your typical fugitive living hand to mouth and sleeping under bridges. Born in Belgium and fluent in English, French, German and Spanish, he has spent the past 17 years in Switzerland, living in splendid exile outside Zurich, protected by a coterie of private security guards from Israel and running a $30 billion business that brokers everything from oil and gold to sugar and grain. Switzerland refused to extradite him. But now that point is moot. Thanks to Clinton, the billionaire who could have faced years in prison suddenly has a clean slate...
...racing machine ran away with her opponents' gold-medal dreams before 70,000 track-crazed Belgians. Jones, not known for her starts, popped the second fastest reaction time in a nine-woman field and plowed through a headwind to a 10.83 clocking to win the 100 m. In Zurich a few weeks earlier, she had a terrible start, then chased down the pack, nipping fellow American Inger Miller at the wire. When Jones is slow out of the blocks, she wins. When she's fast, there's no contest. Her rivals are left without solutions, short of finding a Tonya...