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Helping FIFA get into shape

This content was published on Apr 24, 2014

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Could an ultrasound bath squeeze out mammograms?

This content was published on Apr 24, 2014 “You can do what you like, just don’t pull your breast out of the water,” as Serafino Forte tells his patient at Basel University Hospital’s breast centre. She’s lying belly down on a table with a round hole cut into it; her right breast is hanging into the basin below. Under the surface, ultrasonic sensors…

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Football’s governing body urged to come clean

This content was published on Apr 24, 2014 The advisory group known as the Independent Governance Committee (IGC) gave its full support on Wednesday to a FIFA investigation of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup votes, led by ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia. “The ethics committee should not rest until there is a conclusive answer,” Pieth wrote in a report to FIFA board members,…

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Politicians’ trip to Tehran raises eyebrows

This content was published on Apr 23, 2014 After the Swiss media learned of the trip, questions were raised as to what members of the People’s Party were doing there. The politicians met members of the Iranian political and business communities – such as Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi. Afterwards, the Tehran Times quoted Aargau representative Luzi Stamm as saying that imposing…

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Vox pops

This content was published on Apr 23, 2014

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Consumption of local wine rises again

This content was published on Apr 22, 2014 The total wine consumption rose 2% to 273 million litres, as people increasingly drank white wines. The consumption of all Swiss wines rose 10% to 107 million litres, while that of foreign wines – mainly imported from France, Italy, Spain and South Africa – dropped 2.6% to 166 million litres, the Federal Office for Agriculture…

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How the Blanks cope

This content was published on Apr 22, 2014

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‘Swiss diplomacy supported Franco’

This content was published on Apr 20, 2014 Schweizer unter Franco – “Swiss under Franco” – was written by journalist and historian Ralph Hug, the author of numerous books on the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. He was also one of the sponsors of an initiative to rehabilitate the approximately 800 Swiss volunteers who fought against the Franco side in the Spanish Civil…

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The art of extraordinary origami

This content was published on Apr 19, 2014

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