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Swiss farmers seek new roles

This content was published on Dec 12, 2002 The community of Eggiwil in the Emmental has launched an innovative scheme creating a partnership between urban and rural areas. The initiative links city social work departments with Emmental farming families in a project which allows children at risk to be cared for in rural communities. The project was created by Aspos, an organisation dedicated…

Swiss scientist honoured with Nobel prize

This content was published on Dec 10, 2002 The Nobel committee said there would be “no modern pharmaceuticals” without the work of Wüthrich and two other joint recipients of the award. Wüthrich takes one half of the prestigious $1 million award, with the other half being divided equally between the United States scientist, John Fenn, and Japan’s Koichi Tanaka. The three scientists share…

Capital ideas, made in Bern

This content was published on Dec 5, 2002 Einstein couldn’t keep still. He changed Bern residences on average once a year during the seven years he lived in the Swiss capital. The Einstein House at Kramgasse 49 in Bern’s well-preserved old town is where he lived from 1903 to 1905. It is a small museum and memorial to the physicist who has been…

Top Swiss science institute to cut jobs

This content was published on Nov 23, 2002 The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich said the jobs would be lost over the course of the next five years. At its annual open day on Saturday, the institute’s president, Olaf Kübler, made an appeal to the Swiss government to make more money available from 2004 to fund research and attract the world’s…

Stem cell research gets government backing

This content was published on Nov 20, 2002 A draft law permits the importation of stem cells and the use of surplus embryos under strict conditions. “This is the most liberal law that we can push through within the present constitution,” said Gérard Escher, advisor to the secretary of state for science. The legislation allows the production of stem cells from surplus embryos…

Waste disposal the Swiss way

This content was published on Nov 20, 2002 The people of canton Vaud will be voting on Sunday on whether to introduce the tax, which is already commonplace in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. The rubbish bag tax means that householders have to buy a coloured sticker from the local shop and place it on their rubbish bags – instead of paying the…

Swiss children take to the streets

This content was published on Nov 20, 2002 All the organisations working for the protection and the defence of children and teenagers are taking part. Wednesday’s events are being run by 11 Swiss organisations, including Pro Juventute, Swissaid, Terre des Hommes and Amnesty International. “Even if children’s rights still have a long way to go, we decided to make this day a celebration…

Expo pieces auctioned at bargain prices

This content was published on Nov 18, 2002 The floating Jura Arteplage has been snapped up for a knock-down price, but the sale of the Monolith has been put on hold after the only offer was considered too low by the owner. A German entrepreneur, Rolf Oberle, was the only bidder for the huge, rusting monolith, one of the most talked about pieces…

Switzerland counts the costs of weekend storms

This content was published on Nov 18, 2002 Clean-up operations are underway but the damage is severe and repairs are expected to cost millions of francs. Some 300 people from the villages of Schlans, Panix and Tersnau in the canton of Graubünden, who were evacuated this weekend, are still unable to return to their homes. According to the cantonal police, the situation has…

Severe weather hits Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 17, 2002 Hundreds of people were evacuated from the village of Schlans after a mudslide left the village cut off from the outside world. A police spokesman in Schlans, a village in canton Graubünden, said the landslide had gone right through the middle of the village, injuring several people. Bruno Pfister, one of around 100 people who…

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