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Swiss Paralympic team aiming for ten medals

This content was published on Sep 7, 2016 The Swiss team is comprised of 24 athletes specialising in seven sports. Altogether, some 4,350 athletes from more than 170 nations are competing in 22 disciplines. In 2012’s London games, Switzerland won 13 medals – including three gold – with four scored by wheelchair racer Edith Hunkeler. In the meantime, Hunkeler has retired. Now the…

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The Blue Rider

This content was published on Sep 7, 2016 Landscapes, animals, abstract compositions in colourful, wild colors: This is The Blue Rider avant-garde art movement in the early 20th century.

Apprenticeships require trust in teens

This content was published on Sep 7, 2016 Should teenagers be allowed to operate high-tech machinery and be put to work at a young age?

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Promising results for lab-grown skin

This content was published on Sep 6, 2016 Surgeons at the University Children’s Hospital in Zurich have successfully grafted a skin substitute grown in a laboratory onto patients.

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First wooden high-rise to be built in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 6, 2016 The use of wood as a construction material has been limited in Switzerland for fire prevention reasons. Until the end of 2004, wooden buildings couldn’t be more than two storeys with a roof extension, as Lignum, the Swiss wood industry’s umbrella organisationExternal link, explained on Tuesday. The regulations were relaxed as a result of research…

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Swiss chalets: the end of a myth

This content was published on Sep 6, 2016 It’s been a shock: the wooden chalet – so long a perfect symbol of Swissness – may not be so Swiss after all.

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Let’s talk about organ donations, urges campaign

This content was published on Sep 6, 2016 A national campaign has been launched in Switzerland to get people to talk about the “sensitive topic” of organ donation.

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How does Cairo compare with Zurich?

This content was published on Sep 6, 2016 The chaos of life in a big city like Cairo offers unexpected rewards. For Swiss filmmaker Sandra Gysi, it’s the gift of time.

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What’s more Swiss than a chalet?

This content was published on Sep 5, 2016 The “Swiss style” chalet conjures up the simple life of mountain people set amid a postcard backdrop of cows, cheese and watches. Yet a doctoral student, Daniel Stockhammer, concludes that foreign architects, mainly Germans, first developed the traditional Swiss woodwork cottage of the 19th century. “The emergence of a Swiss style of woodwork was accompanied…

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Cashing in on Tolkien’s Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 5, 2016 J.R.R. Tolkien was so impressed by the beauty of nature during a visit to Switzerland, that he incorporated some of his experiences in his novels.

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