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A view of the Matterhorn from Gornergrat observatory. The Matterhorn, St. Bernards, beautiful alpine country dotted with quaint chalets, fondue, skiing, precision watches, banking and a rail system unsurpassed defines Switzerland. In visiting Switzerland, one can travel to three countries within its borders. Two thirds of the nation speaks a variety of German dialects. In the western region ...
PartnerRe Ltd. has completed the acquisition of Switzerland-based diversified reinsurer PARIS RE. The transaction was worth $2 billion.
The US Ski Team has regrouped in Davos, Switzerland, with the sprinters joining the distance skiers after the conclusion of the Dusseldorf World Cups. All skiers are healthy. Lars Flora is recovered from illness that kept him out of the Kuusamo races, and he Liz Stephen, Morgan Arritola, and Kris Freeman have been training in Davos, [...]
The Little Matterhorn is not in Switzerland. It`s a peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. Viewed from the east side, it appears to be a horn-shaped peak. Its mass is considered small when compared to Longs Peak or Mt. Meeker.
ZUG, SWITZERLAND and PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwire - 12/09/09) - Mining group Xstrata has chosen to implement high definition telepresence solutions from Polycom, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLCM - News ), the global leader in telepresence, video and voice communications solutions, to increase the efficiency of its internal and executive communications efforts. Xstrata with its 40,000 employees worldwide at ...
QLT Inc. welcomed the 6-month results from the Novartis-sponsored EVEREST study which were presented during a scientific review today by Novartis in Basel, Switzerland. EVEREST is the first multi-center, double-masked, indocyanine green angiography -guided randomized controlled trial with an angiographic treatment outcome designed to assess the effect of Visudyne alone or in combination with ...
(RTTNews) - The US dollar eased from new multi-week highs against the currencies of Europe, UK and Switzerland during Wednesday's early Asian trading. The dollar also pared early gains against the yen.
Do those with more testosterone coursing through their bodies make riskier, more aggressive decisions? Popular culture and even rodent studies seem to have borne out this trite truism about the sex hormone , but researchers in Switzerland and the U.K. tested whether this perception really held true for humans in a controlled environment--and arrived at counter-intuitive findings. [More]
LONDON and CAMBRIDGE, MA and BASEL, SWITZERLAND--(Marketwire - December 9, 2009) - Antisoma plc ( LSE : ASM ; USOTC: ATSMY) announces that Novartis, its partner for ASA404, will feature ASA404 in today's Oncology pipeline update for investors. A webcast will be available via the Novartis website at www.novartis.com The update covers recent progress on the ASA404 lung ...
Taylor Phinney is getting some last-minute help in the quest to keep his specialty event on the Olympic cycling program. Hard copies of an online petition with 4,408 signatures were sent to the International Olympic Committee on Monday, just two days before the group's executive board is to convene in Switzerland for a meeting.
GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The World Meteorological Organization says this decade is the warmest on record, surpassing the period spanning the 1990s.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Elimination of endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis are up for consideration this week by the International Olympic Committee.At a two-day meeting that starts Wednesday, the IOC executive boa...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Elimination of maligned endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis are up for consideration this week by the International Olympic Committee.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is considering the elimination of endurance events in track cycling and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis for the 2012 London Games.
Nonvolatile memory supplier Numonyx BV (Rolle, Switzerland) is on course to provide customers with samples of its 1-Gbit phase-change random access memory (PCRAM) in the first quarter of 2010 and get into volume production later in the same year. Presented By: NEC Ads by Pheedo
STUTTGART, GERMANY – December 8, 2009: The Maybach automobile brand is accelerating its commitment to contemporary art. The focus is to work with internationally renowned artists like David LaChapelle and major institutions within the art community, like the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.
