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Swiss embassy gives young people spray cans and a voice

This content was published on Jan 23, 2001 This colourful means of expression may seem a surprising way for the supposedly staid Swiss to celebrate. But Switzerland does have a tradition of graffiti art, epitomised by the so-called “Zurich sprayer”, Harald Nägeli. Four graffiti artists have been busily transforming the garage under the embassy building in Montagu Place into an underground gallery of…

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Gene switchboard reveals its secrets

This content was published on Jan 22, 2001 The researchers, who are collaborating with the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, are investigating the behaviour of regulatory elements which control the behaviour of genes. These elements act as insulators or walls, blocking the transfer of information from one side of the wall to the other. They are usually believed to insulate a gene against…

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The man who changed Neuchâtel bows out

This content was published on Jan 19, 2001 But scratch the surface and there’s a different Karl Dobler, a man who has worked hard to achieve success over the past 20 years in attracting hundreds of foreign businesses to canton Neuchâtel. Dobler, who hails from Appenzell and describes himself as a “fighter” and a “born optimist”, is now retiring from his job as…

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Is Lego the key to a successful business strategy?

This content was published on Jan 19, 2001 The Imagination Lab, which is staffed by experts in a wide range of disciplines, is promoting its concept of “Serious Play”. It believes that by getting bosses to see their companies in a different light, they will come up with more effective business strategies. “We use Serious Play to come up with a different kind…

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“Other Davos” calls for alternative debate on world order

This content was published on Jan 19, 2001 The “Other Davos”, as it is called, will bring together academics, left-wing groups and other interested parties from all over the world to a series of debates and workshops at the Volkshaus in Zurich. One of the organisers of the alternative event is Charles André Udry, a Swiss economist. “It’s important to have an alternative…

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Pioneer of glacier theory a very local hero

This content was published on Jan 19, 2001 Lourtier, all closely-huddled houses and narrow streets, sits in a beautiful green valley below the resort of Verbier. It would be completely unremarkable if it wasn’t for the fact that Jean-Pierre Perraudin was born and lived here. Perraudin is the village’s most famous son but he is not as well known as he deserves to…

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Government seeks to privatise heroin distribution programme

This content was published on Jan 18, 2001 Officials from the Swiss Public Health Office said now that the programme’s clinical trial phase is over, it should be privatised. The government first started experimenting with the distribution of medically controlled heroin and methadone in Zurich in 1993. Health office spokesman, Paul Dietschy, said tenders were being sought from private pharmaceutical companies which are…

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Government seeks to privatise heroin distribution programme

This content was published on Jan 18, 2001 Officials from the Swiss Public Health Office said now that the programme’s clinical trial phase is over, it should be privatised. The government first started experimenting with the distribution of medically controlled heroin and methadone in Zurich in 1993. Health office spokesman, Paul Dietschy, said tenders were being sought from private pharmaceutical companies which are…

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Government seeks to privatise heroin distribution programme

This content was published on Jan 18, 2001 Officials from the Swiss Public Health Office said now that the programme’s clinical trial phase is over, it should be privatised. The government first started experimenting with the distribution of medically controlled heroin and methadone in Zurich in 1993. Health office spokesman, Paul Dietschy, said tenders were being sought from private pharmaceutical companies which are…

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