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Adieu, tschüss, ciao…

This content was published on Dec 26, 2008 Hollywood’s photogenic idols Paul Newman and Heath Ledger will no doubt head the end-of-year obituaries. But Switzerland also said goodbye to several big names this year, as well as many less known, but no less interesting, personalities. On November 1 oceanologist Jacques Piccard, one of the 20th century’s last great adventurers, died aged 86 at…