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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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Vets call for action in new horsemeat scandal

This content was published on Feb 24, 2013 Earlier this week, a Swiss television programme showed how horses in Argentina, Mexico, Canada and the United States were being abused. Their meat eventually landed on Swiss dinner plates in the form of steak or perhaps in ready-made foods falsely labelled as “beef-flavoured”. “The images show catastrophic conditions,” as Federal Veterinary Office director Hans Wyss…

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A Swiss-eye view of 1940s Brazil

This content was published on Feb 23, 2013 These pictures are taken from an exhibition in São Paulo. They show everyday scenes of the city from the 1940s. (Photos: Hildegard Rosenthal/Instituto Moreira Salles)

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Shareholders give Novartis vote of approval

This content was published on Feb 22, 2013 Vasella admitted he had made recent mistakes in judging public opinion, but ended his 17-year association with the world’s second largest pharma group on good terms at the annual general meeting on Friday, February 22. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly to accept the company’s new pay structure and the nomination of new chairman Jörg Reinhardt. Apology accepted…

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A workplace full of twists and turns

This content was published on Feb 21, 2013 Gehry became a star on the architecture stage through his design for the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain. Also noteworthy is the Vitra Design Museum in Weil, Germany, which lies directly across the Rhein from Basel. Behind its facade of glass and steel, Gehry’s Novartis design is dominated by wood. The building houses offices for…

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