Cluster: Swiss Identity

Aid work: an alternative to army service

This content was published on Feb 28, 2013 Such alternative service abroad could mean working as a laboratory assistant for the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute or as a truck driver for Médecins Sans Frontières in Africa. It could be teaching maths in Brazil, giving instruction in using solar technology to disinfect drinking water, or working as an expert on well projects…

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From teenage tantrums to sublime success

This content was published on Feb 27, 2013 The development of one of the most awe-inspiring players the world has ever seen has involved little blood, a lot of toil and sweat and many tears. Federer has never been extrovert or arrogant but he was always ambitious. As a 15-year-old at the Swiss National Tennis Centre at Ecublens, he had to write down…

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Telephone interpretation to the rescue

This content was published on Feb 27, 2013 A pilot project, the National Telephone Interpreting Service has already garnered praise for its practical and helpful intervention in emergency situations – and not only in hospitals. Speakers of languages from Arabic to Serbian to Italian are on call, ready to interpret into and from Switzerland’s three official languages – German, French and Italian –…

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‘Society has to take certain risks’

This content was published on Feb 26, 2013 He spent months working on a film about the inmates at Thorberg, a high-security prison outside the capital, Bern. During that time he became familiar with everyday life behind bars. In an interview with swissinfo.ch, Fahrer says he gained vast insight that has made him “a sort of spokesman” for those who can’t speak for…

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Italien mit offenen Augen

This content was published on Feb 26, 2013 Die Fotografie ist Hektor Leibundguts Leidenschaft. Seien Bilder laden ein zu einer neuen Sicht auf Italien. Während 25 Jahren war er Dozent für Theologie, Philosophie und Ethik an der Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit in Bern und gleichzeitig Redaktor der Zeitschrift «Reformatio». Im vergangenen Jahr zeichnete er als Mitherausgeber der Gesamtausgabe von Kurt Martis «Notizen und…

Return of stolen assets to soothe past wounds

This content was published on Feb 25, 2013 Of the CHF530 million ($570 million) Marcos and his cronies stashed in Switzerland, CHF200 million will be returned to the victims. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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Red Cross museum tries to return tobacco money

This content was published on Feb 25, 2013 Last November, a host of international anti-smoking and health advocacy groups protested the museum’s decision to accept a donation from JTI, citing it as a poor move for an organisation whose mission is “to protect life and health and respect human beings”. On February 19, museum director Roger Mayou admitted his organisation had made a…

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Red Cross to send less blood to Greece

This content was published on Feb 25, 2013 The SRC’s non-profit transfusion service says it prefers to reduce its exposure and focus on helping the Greeks improve their own blood distribution service. Annual shipments of around 28,000 blood pockets to Greece have been considered part of the SRC’s humanitarian mandate. Around ten per cent of the Greek population suffers from thalassaemia, an inherited blood…

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‘Digital has a future – but no past!’

This content was published on Feb 25, 2013 “Digital has a future – but no past!” is the message on a poster in Egli’s shop in Bern. The trained photographer and avid collector of equipment and gadgets swears by the quality and durability of analogue films. He shares his enthusiasm with his wife and business partner, Romy. Both are retired, but still work…

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Travelling talent seeks computer-generated success

This content was published on Feb 25, 2013 “I was surprised,” Markus Gross, professor of computer graphics at the Federal Institute of technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and director of Disney Research Zurich, admitted (see article). “I knew the technology we developed a few years ago had been picked up by lots of visual effects studios and that it was being used in Hollywood…

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