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Museum stages first glimpse of archives

This content was published on Nov 22, 2008 Las Vegas Studio will be on show at the Bellpark Museum in Kriens in canton Lucerne until March 2009. It is the first public viewing of Learning from Las Vegas, a research project on symbolism in architecture carried out in 1968 by post-modernist Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. The work went on…

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A teetotaller transforms Swiss tourism

This content was published on Nov 22, 2008 Many an hotelier and restaurateur could raise a glass on Saturday to travel pioneer Thomas Cook who transformed Switzerland’s tourist industry by introducing package tours to the country. Born in Derbyshire on November 22, 1808, Cook started his business by organising local transport for members of the temperance society – a movement that viewed alcohol…

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People pick and mix their spirituality

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 The trend has been magnified by the rise and decline of minority sects, a phenomenon that has both weakened the power of traditional organised religion and created a culture of tailor-made spirituality. Rafael Walthert from Zurich University’s department of religious science told swissinfo that the process was started by a profusion of religious cults 40…

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Careless boys pose new sex risk

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 Researchers say the findings show sex education should be given to children earlier, both at home and at school. The team from the Centre for Development and Personality Psychology at Basel University studied a 2008 online survey of 1,480 people aged ten-20 from German-speaking Switzerland. While the results showed a stabilisation of the age at…

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Colombia gets Gontard interview transcripts

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 A spokesman for Switzerland’s justice ministry told the Associated Press on Friday it had handed the transcript of an interview with Gontard to the Colombian embassy in Bern on Wednesday. Colombia had appealed to Switzerland in September for cooperation as part of its treaty obligations to provide mutual legal assistance to other governments in criminal…

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Repatriation agreement signed with Bulgaria

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 The accord will make it easier for both governments to repatriate people, and allows Switzerland to return to Bulgaria third-country nationals who transit the Balkan state. The justice ministry said the accord matches those Switzerland has with other European Union member states. Bulgaria and Romania became EU members at the beginning of January 2007. Widmer-Schlumpf…

Culture

Shiva’s dance of life and death

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 His appeal has spread beyond the borders of his homeland of India. An exhibition at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich is exploring why so many people are drawn to the Dancing Shiva. The image of Shiva as the Lord of the Dance – multi-armed, posed on one leg, surrounded by a circle of fire, his…

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Rescue workers pass UN test

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 The foreign ministry said on Friday that a team of UN observers from eight different countries had assessed Swiss workers for their leadership, mobilisation, detection, rescue and management skills. Exercises in the Bernese Oberland and at Zurich’s international airport included the rescue of around 100 people using 18 dogs and 20 tons of material. More…

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Mafia targets Switzerland for business

This content was published on Nov 21, 2008 Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor Agostino Abate tells swissinfo that Switzerland has increasingly become a target of criminal organisations. A report released last year by the Confesercenti – one of Italy’s major business associations – asserted that through activities such as extortion, usury, contraband, robberies, gambling and internet piracy, organised-crime syndicates accounted for seven per cent of…

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