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scientists go with the hazard flow

This content was published on May 17, 2006 The Rapid Mass Movements or Ramms project at the Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos integrates avalanches, debris flows and rock falls into one simulation tool. The institute has been conducting research for 70 years now but still cannot predict the precise time, place or scale of an avalanche. Field and laboratory…

lab airs dirty news

This content was published on May 17, 2006 With its simulation facilities, mobile equipment and a measurement centre high in the Alps, the laboratory is an international leader in its field. For the past few years, smog has been a regular topic in the media. Atmospheric pollution levels in Switzerland have exceeded legal limits for days on end all year round. Recently PM10…

syngenta looks to biotechnology

This content was published on May 17, 2006 But claims that its products will help combat hunger around the world or improve people’s health are hotly contested even in its own backyard. Syngenta has become a force to be reckoned with in the five years since it was created by the merger of Novartis’ and AstraZeneca’s crop businesses. It is the world leader…

us is pot of gold for swiss drug firms

This content was published on May 17, 2006 But drug makers are coming under pressure to rein in prices as the cost of healthcare in the US continues its steep upward climb. “The American market is the most important for any drug company,” says Karl-Heinz Koch, an analyst at private bank Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch. “And as the relative price of pharmaceutical products…

cern reaches for new frontiers

This content was published on May 17, 2006 But what is life like inside the European Organization for Nuclear Research on the Swiss-French border? Two young scientists share their experiences with swissinfo. To those unitiated in the world of particles, quarks and antimatter, the uninspiring complex of buildings outside Geneva can seem daunting. It is here that some of the greatest minds in…

swiss houses span the globe

This content was published on May 17, 2006 These so-called Swiss Houses aim to provide a link between Swiss citizens – academics or innovators – Switzerland and the host country. The first Swiss house opened its doors in Boston six years ago. Set up in a renovated redbrick supermarket building, it sits between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Our first goal…

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Where democracy springs eternal

This content was published on May 15, 2006 swissinfo visited Glarus, a mountain region in eastern Switzerland, where the 700-year tradition is very much alive and continues to draw the crowds. Even the most unsuspecting visitor could tell that something was going on. On the eve of the Landsgemeinde earlier this month, hundreds of people were selling their wares or looking for a…

Young and unskilled workers face welfare trap

This content was published on May 15, 2006 Unemployment is often the main factor triggering the need for financial support by the authorities. Unskilled labour is most likely to depend on welfare. About 220,000 people – mainly foreigners, single parents and youths – depend on welfare, said a report based on data from 2004. Residents in the southern Ticino and the northwestern Jura…

Naturalisation is a step towards integration

This content was published on May 14, 2006 Piguet, from Neuchâtel University, says that speaking the language, a good education and access to the job market are the most important factors behind successful integration. Piguet’s comments come after Swiss citizens turned down two federal proposals to ease citizenship requirements for second and third generation foreigners eighteen months ago. Switzerland has one of the…

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