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Illuminating nature’s raw brilliance

This content was published on May 3, 2014 Baselgia took photos in his home valley, the Engadine, but also travelled to the far north of Norway, to the Tierra del Fuego islands off the southern tip of South America, and to the equator. His use of extremely long exposures has created raw, intense photos of mountains and plains, oceans and coasts, water and…

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Battle for future of UNESCO wine region

This content was published on May 2, 2014 All is quiet on the steep, narrow stone-walled vineyards at Chexbres overlooking Lake Geneva. That is except for the occasional chirping of birds and the scraping noises made by workers clearing weeds from one of the 10,000 terraces. Constant Jomini makes his way along the lines of vines on his four-hectare property, inspecting the first…

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Swiss children cost up to CHF1,000 per month

This content was published on Apr 29, 2014 According to the Federal Statistical Office, which reported figures from the Household Budget Survey 2009-2011, couples with one child had direct costs of CHF942 on average. If children had siblings, the costs went down. Families with two children spent CHF754 per child per month, and families with three children spent CHF607. Cost incurred by single…

Culture

Bogeyman forecasts hot summer

This content was published on Apr 29, 2014 The annual event held on the third Monday in April marks the end of winter. The böögg’s head is stuffed with firecrackers and perched on top of a huge pyre. It is said that the less time it takes for his head to explode, the better the summer will be. This year it exploded after…

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Immigrants, emigrants and transients

This content was published on Apr 26, 2014

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Helping FIFA get into shape

This content was published on Apr 24, 2014

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,…

History

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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This content was published on Apr 23, 2014

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