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After World War I, Piaget became interested in psychoanalysis. He moved to Zurich, where he attended Carl Jung's lectures, and then to Paris to study logic and abnormal psychology. Working with Theodore Simon in Alfred Binet's child-psychology lab, he noticed that Parisian children of the same age made similar errors on true-false intelligence tests. Fascinated by their reasoning processes, he began to suspect that the key to human knowledge might be discovered by observing how the child's mind develops...
REWARD FOR A "RIGHTEOUS GENTILE" Christoph Meili, a watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, tasted fame in January 1997 when he revealed that the bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group...
...fact, anyone with lots of cyberspace experience can imagine a future politician trying to balance out the two factions in her party: those who believe in everything--gray aliens, the Gnomes of Zurich and every other conspiracy theory that slithers across the Net--and those who believe in absolutely nothing unless you can tie it in to a snide quip about The Brady Bunch. Maybe Abbie Hoffman saw this coming and just didn't want to have to think about...
Tell that to the survivors: Most Jewish groups claim Holocaust victims own a total of $7 billion in assets and interest sitting untouched in Zurich vaults. "My 31,000 clients will not stand for this," said claimant lawyer Edward Fagan. Until now, Fagan believed a $1 billion deal was in the works -- and even that wouldn't have satisfied his clients...
...Nora and then their two children moved among and around European cities--Pola, Trieste, Zurich, Rome, Paris--Joyce found clerical and teaching jobs that provided subsistence to his family and his writing. His first published book of fiction, Dubliners (1914), contained 15 stories short on conventional plots but long on evocative atmosphere and language. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) provided a remarkably objective and linguistically complex account of Stephen Dedalus, i.e. James Joyce, from his birth to his decision to leave Dublin in pursuit...