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Fewer marriages but more divorces

This content was published on Jun 24, 2005 There was also a decrease in the number of marriages and deaths, according to figures released by the Federal Statistics Office on Friday. They show that there were 73,100 children born, which is 1.7 per cent more than the previous year. The number of births has remained stable since 2001, after falling by almost 15…

Men fight for greater recognition

This content was published on Jun 24, 2005 The founders of männer.ch say Swiss men are under increasing pressure and need to restore a healthy balance between work and leisure. The “forum for men, emancipation and politics” sees itself as an umbrella organisation for men’s groups, and it promises to represent their interests at the federal political level. Its main goal, according to…

Study warns against flight limits at Zurich

This content was published on Jun 23, 2005 The study, commissioned by Zurich’s cantonal parliament, also finds that such a move would prevent the creation of new jobs. In the two years following the grounding of Swissair in 2001, 6,300 full-time and 2,000 part-time jobs were lost at Zurich’s Kloten airport. The number of flight movements dropped from 325,000 in the record year…

“Children are not objects”

This content was published on Jun 22, 2005 Jean Zermatten, who founded the Sion-based International Institute for the Rights of the Child, also told swissinfo that one of his goals was to help eradicate child labour around the world. Zermatten was born in the Swiss city of Sion in 1948 and spent more than three decades working as a juvenile-court judge. The 57-year-old…

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Young leaders gather with 2020 vision

This content was published on Jun 21, 2005 The four-day summit of brainstorming and networking – hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) – will focus on formulating a vision for the world in 2020. “If youth knew; if age could.” The WEF aims to “synergise” Freud’s aphorism by bringing together every year around 250 leading entrepreneurs, scientists, artists, journalists, economists, politicians and…

Transplant investigation sparks medical debate

This content was published on Jun 20, 2005 Rosmarie Voser died in April last year after surgeons at Zurich University Hospital gave her an incompatible heart. Investigators are looking into whether Marko Turina, the surgeon in charge of Voser’s operation, knowingly tried to rewrite medical textbooks by giving her an organ which was likely to be rejected by her immune system. Turina has…

What makes economists different?

This content was published on Jun 17, 2005 But why is there such a gulf between the political views of most professional economists and those of so-called “normal people”? St Gallen University professor Gebhard Kirchgässner, himself one of the country’s best known practitioners of the “dismal science”, believes he may have found the answer. One factor may simply be the way that formal…

A close-up look at Einstein’s genius

This content was published on Jun 15, 2005 It is being held to mark the fact that it was exactly 100 years ago that the scientist came up with some of his most famous theories while living and working in the city. In 1905 Einstein published a series of groundbreaking papers that changed the way the universe was considered. Yet it wasn’t within…

House moots lifting ban on embryo screening

This content was published on Jun 15, 2005 The debate comes just weeks after it was revealed that a so-called “medicine baby”, conceived through in-vitro fertilisation in Belgium, had been born to a Swiss couple. At present Swiss law bans almost all forms of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). It also outlaws the practice of selecting embryos so that the resulting offspring can provide…

House votes to lift ban on embryo screening

This content was published on Jun 15, 2005 Thursday’s vote comes just weeks after it was revealed that a so-called “medicine baby”, conceived through in-vitro fertilisation in Belgium, had been born to a Swiss couple. Parliamentarians voted by 92 to 63 to allow pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) under strict conditions. The cabinet will now have to draw up new legislation to be submitted…

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