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Shop till you drop – in dual purpose stores

This content was published on Sep 3, 2000 Zurich’s retail scene also has a wealth of innovative and exciting outlets – including an increasing number of dual purpose shops. One of the latest entrants onto the Zurich shopping list is Spheres, located in the industrial quarter of the city. Spheres combines not just a book shop but also a café and a theatre.…

Leuenberger warns of vote-related petrol price hike

This content was published on Sep 2, 2000 In an interview published in Saturday’s edition of the “Tribune de Genève” daily, Moritz Leuenberger said that if the energy taxes were to be rejected, a tax on CO-2 levels would in all likelihood have to be implemented. And that tax, said Leuenberger, would mean a 50 centimes rise at Swiss petrol pumps. On September…

The business week in review

This content was published on Sep 2, 2000 Credit Suisse on Wednesday announced it is to buy the American investment bank, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette (DLJ). The deal will cost Credit Suisse around SFr20 billion ($11.5 billion), and comes two months after Switzerland’s biggest bank, UBS, bought the US broker, PaineWebber. On Thursday, Credit Suisse published its half-year figures, which showed net profits…

Start-ups face uphill battle to succeed in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 2, 2000 Although the economy is growing solidly and unemployment has reached new lows, not everybody believes it’s a perfect world. For high-tech entrepreneurs, starting a business is still a tough proposition in the current legislative environment. Two major issues cloud their horizon: the minimum price of company shares and the lack of available work permits for…

Researchers see DNA as potential power source

This content was published on Sep 2, 2000 The aim is for the robots to be used to diagnose illnesses, read genes, or deliver drugs with pin-point precision. The researchers at IBM Research in Zurich and the University of Basel say they have discovered that DNA can be used to bend tiny silicon “fingers”, or cantilevers, with a thickness less than one-fifth of…

New campaign to eradicate illiteracy launched in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 2, 2000 In canton Berne alone, an estimated 100,000 people are considered functionally illiterate: that is they have trouble writing or reading a simple text. Nationwide, up to 19 per cent of the adult population is affected. The figure compares to an adult illiteracy rate of about 20 per cent in western countries, according to a recent…

Swiss railways sets sights on share of British market

This content was published on Sep 1, 2000 The Federal Railways announced in London on Friday that it was teaming up with two British partners to bid for franchises for passenger train services south-west of London. Total Swiss investment could be up to SFr200 million ($114 million). The partners are John Laing Investments and the M40 Trains company. The three companies have already…

Swiss step out as world leaders in saving books

This content was published on Sep 1, 2000 The plant, inaugurated on Friday, will reverse the ageing process of some 3,000 tonnes of books and documents at the Federal Archive and the National Library, through a process known as “Papersave Swiss”. It involves neutralising the acidity in paper using an alkaline substance, and can be applied to any book or document manufactured using…

Fewer houses built in first quarter

This content was published on Sep 1, 2000 Between April and June 7,300 new houses were completed, 300 fewer than in the second quarter of 1999. But taken as a whole the first six months of the year showed a slight increase in new buildings. Between them Switzerland’s five biggest cities accounted for a third of all new housing over the period in…

Leonardo da Vinci as artist, scientist and engineer

This content was published on Sep 1, 2000 The 250 exhibits cover all the fields of science, engineering and the arts to which Leonardo (1452-1519) applied his vision. The exhibition, which has already been seen by three million visitors in 11 cities in Europe, the United States, Asia and South Africa since it began its tour in Germany in 1994, tries to acquaint…

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