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Cuche captures overall giant slalom title

This content was published on Mar 13, 2009 A crystal globe goes to the season’s best skier in each World Cup discipline. Cuche topped the final GS standings with 474 points. Austria’s Benjamin Raich, who won Friday’s event, was second overall with 462 points. Ted Ligety of the United States – last year’s title holder – came third overall with 421 points. He…

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Abduction alert scheme gains momentum

This content was published on Mar 13, 2009 The Senate – in the third vote on the issue in 18 months – overwhelmingly passed a motion on Thursday calling on the government to press ahead with introducing a system on a national level this year. It will now go before the House of Representatives. The government last month rejected the motion, saying the…

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Pepe Lienhard Big Band: Let’s swing

This content was published on Mar 12, 2009 I Wanna Be Loved by You Pepe Lienhard Big Band

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Federer to become a father

This content was published on Mar 12, 2009 “This is a dream come true for us,” the 27-year-old said in a message to fans on his website on Thursday. “We love children and we are looking forward to being parents for the first time. Mirka is feeling great and everything is going well.” The baby is due in the summer, he added. The…

Marygold: My Bow, My Arrow, My Target

This content was published on Mar 12, 2009

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Risk assessment “key” to treating sex offenders

This content was published on Mar 12, 2009 Forensic psychiatrist Dr Frank Urbaniok, an expert in offence-oriented therapy who works for canton Zurich’s justice department, explains to swissinfo the system for treating violent and sex offenders. In the current case, people want to know why the self-confessed murderer, a 25-year-old known only as Daniel H., wasn’t in prison after trying to kill another…

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More patients responding to HIV treatment

This content was published on Mar 11, 2009 Researchers at the Swiss National Science Foundation on Wednesday said that new drug cocktails were responsible for the decline. In 1999, between 50 and 57 per cent of HIV patients were resistant to drugs. That number had dropped to between 37 and 45 per cent by 2007, the organisation said in a statement. Until 1996,…

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Tillman: Lingo

This content was published on Mar 11, 2009 It led him back home to Jolimont in Switzerland where his parents were still living. Here he united musicians from all across the world, whose musical paths he had crossed earlier. For Tillman was trained musically in Jolimont from early age on by his parents, it was natural this group here was named “Jolimont Project”.…

Brazilian Musicians in Switzerland – Músicos Brasileiros na Suíça: Música Popular

This content was published on Mar 11, 2009 In Switzerland, as in many other countries, Brazilian musicians are well-known and respected.Circumstances made some of them stay in Switzerland and, consequently, develop their art outside Brazil. This double CD Edition, one programme featuring classical, the other popular music of Brazil, emerged from a series of interviews with some of these musicians. It was produced…

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Cuche finishes second in season’s last downhill

This content was published on Mar 11, 2009 Cuche finished two-tenths of a second behind Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway, who completed the Olympia course in the Swedish resort of Åre in 1 minute, 22.26 seconds. The result on a shortened course moved Cuche into third place in the overall standings with 843 points. Three races – a super-G, giant slalom and slalom…

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