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Apatosaurus Max and friends show their bones in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 13, 2001 The bones and skull of an Apatosaurus – named “Max” by the Swiss team – joins the nearly complete skeleton of an Allosaurus (“Big Al Two”), as the two most impressive finds among the collection. The exhibition opens on April 16. One of the largest land animals that ever existed, the plant-eating Apatosaurus measured up…

Policy-makers see how the wind blows

This content was published on Apr 12, 2001 Wind power accounts for just 0.005 per cent of Swiss electricity production compared with about 60 per cent from water power and almost 40 per cent from nuclear power. The Federal Office for Energy reckons that in the long term, about 3.5 per cent of Switzerland’s electricity needs could eventually be met by wind power…

Magnetism makes waves in Winterthur

This content was published on Apr 9, 2001 “Our civilisation would not be at the point where it is today without magnetism,” said museum director, Remo Besio. “Just think of your credit card, your cellular phone or the whole of electricity. There would be no generators, no radio waves, no radar. Hardly any technology could exist without it.” The ancient Greeks knew about…

World Health Day puts mental illness in spotlight

This content was published on Apr 7, 2001 A public symposium, organised by Geneva University Hospitals, brought together some of Switzerland’s leading doctors and mental health specialists to highlight scientific progress made during research into mental illness. A round table discussion about the relationship between human rights and mental health was held at Geneva’s Palais des Nations, while in Lausanne an open discussion…

Inventors offer solutions in Geneva

This content was published on Apr 7, 2001 Hundreds of exhibitors from more than 40 countries have displayed their products or ideas at Palexpo. Among this year’s entries are a machine for humanely killing lobsters, devices to screen radio frequency waves from portable phones or reduce the wear of the tyres of aircraft on landing, and an umbrella holder which serves to hold…

Swiss mudslide village offered cruise by Greek tycoon

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 Georges Poulides, chairman and chief executive of Festival Cruises, issued the invitation to the 150 inhabitants of Gondo as a gesture of solidarity. He said he had driven through the village on many occasions on his way to the nearby resort of Crans Montana. Around 90 villagers seemed keen to take up the offer. They…

Swiss firm to participate in building of new Ariane rocket

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 Under the deal with Arianespace, Contraves Space is to produce eight payload fairings per year for the new Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher. The satellites are due to be sent into orbit starting this summer. The Zurich firm has a long history of links with European space programmes. It developed the payload fairings for the first…

Networking boosts gay business and confidence

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 Founded in 1995, Network is a nationwide body with 250 members and another 50 gay men waiting to join. Its members hold weekly get-togethers in Zurich, Bern, Basel and Lucerne. Members living in the French-speaking part of the country alternate their meetings between Geneva and Lausanne. Network was set up after a group of gay…

Visionary promotes sustainable “Celtic” future

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 On this day, a group of schoolchildren have made the trip to Markus Sommer’s farm in the hilly Guggisberg region south of Bern. They have had to change from their train to a bus and walk the last few hundred metres up a steep slope to the one-room house. Sommer places more wood on the…

Lake Geneva shore in bloom

This content was published on Apr 6, 2001 Around 100,000 tulips, narcissi, hyacinths and daffodils will provide a riot of colour in the Parc de l’Indépendance. It will be the festival’s 30th anniversary, and folk music and other entertainment will add to the attraction over the weekend. It will be the turn of the nearby village of Vullierens from mid-May to mid-June, when…

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