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1. Apple's innovative iPad will be available on April 3
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April. On March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple's online store (www.apple.com) ...

2. Women’s rights losing ground around the world
(World/International)

... including Mexico, Lesotho, Kuwait, Turkey, Romania, Serbia, Peru, France and Switzerland, have either repealed or amended laws that were clearly discriminatory against women. Bien-Aime said there has ...

3. Europe’s tax evaders scurry after governments buy secret Swiss bank account information
(World/International)

... and Development (OECD) and tax havens such as Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. The cases surfaced in January when anonymous former clerks at Swiss private banks offered the German ministry ...

4. Terrorist who targeted New York City subway system pleads guilty
(U.S./Nation)

... Pakistan from Newark International Airport in New Jersey via Geneva, Switzerland and Doha, Qatar. CBP records further reflect that Najibullah Zazi traveled from Peshawar to John F. Kennedy International ...

5. New Jersey’s Johnny Weir dumps fur, going for quad at 2010 Vancouver Olympics
(Sports/Professional)

... has only won two other Gold medals in this event since it was added to the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Lindsey Vonn finally has something to be happy about on the slopes. Vonn, who ...

6. Medals begin to flow for Americans at 2010 Vancouver Olympics
(Sports/Professional)

... Netherlands, Russia, Germany, France, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia and Austria have one medal a piece at the end of the first day of competition. In Short Track Speed Skating Apolo Anton Ohno captured ...

7. 2010 Vancouver Olympics not starting off on the right foot
(Sports/Professional)

... game against Switzerland. In the second round of the Olympic round robin tournament, Team USA will take on Norway on February 18th at 3 p.m. Eastern and finally take on Canada February 21st at 7:40pm Eastern. ...

8. Gates pledge $10 billion to help save lives of poor children through vaccines
(World/International)

... distribution over the past decade, was announced Friday at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. "We must make this the decade of vaccines," Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft who ...

9. Roy Nersesian: Healthcare reform missing costly points
(Opinion/Commentary)

... second highest Switzerland by an impressive 65% and as an aside, we are tied with Switzerland for having the lowest number of per capita doctor visits per year. The next chart ranks each nation by the ...

10. Developed countries should pay for forests, says Geneva survey
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

A survey carried out in Geneva, Switzerland, shows that most people believe that the key to conserving tropical forests and seriously reducing greenhouse gas emissions lies with better funding from developed ...

11. Monmouth’s Michael D’Angelo going to prison for stealing from investors
(N.J./State)

... foreign currency trading, unspecified activity in Switzerland, U.S. government money manipulation, and trading in large blocks of bank notes. In reality, D'Angelo commingled investor funds, using funds ...

12. Lynn Redgrave takes flight as a solitary ‘Nightingale'
(Entertainment/Movies)

... child in World War Two, Beatrice's jealous comments about her daughter Rachel's starring performance in "A Doll's House" in the West End and a late-life experience in Switzerland that evokes an early memory. ...

13. Report: Millions of children die despite record number of vaccinations in 2008
(Health/Healthquest)

... world, a loss of public confidence in vaccines has led to a disturbing resurgence of preventable diseases — particularly measles — in industrialized countries, including Austria, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, ...

14. Origin of Manhattan Transfer is part of N.J. history
(Life/Style)

... Italy, Denmark and Switzerland. You can still read the Dos Passos book Manhattan Transfer, and for you train buffs, the story about the original Manhattan Transfer is also still available in book form ...

15. India impresses world community with launch of 7 satellites in one rocket
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to Germany, one to Switzerland and one to Turkey. Last year, India put 10 satellites in space in a single launch. The head of the Indian Space Research organization, G. Madhavan Nair, says the ...

16. Gadhafi may have found a temporary home on Donald Trump's Bedford, N.Y. estate
(U.S./Nation)

... release is just one of Gadhafi's current controversies. Last year, he launched a diplomatic and business campaign against Switzerland after another of his sons, Hannibal, was detained for assaulting an ...

17. Researchers succeed in making paralyzed rats walk again
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of the University of Zurich in Switzerland. "These animals [that were completely] paralyzed could regain the capacity to walk with full weight bearing, to walk at different speeds, even run, to walk ...

18. Solar plane team hopes to circle Earth in 2012
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY STEPHEN LEAHY* IPS NEWS AGENCY DÜBENDORF, SWITZERLAND - A solar-powered aircraft will take flight next month from Switzerland with hopes ultimately to circle the Earth in 2012, without fuel, and ...

19. Switzerland overtakes U.S. as the most competitive nation
(World/International)

Switzerland! What's so special about it? Swiss cheese. They make nice watches. Well, the U.S. was displaced by Switzerland as the world's most-competitive economy, the World Economic Forum said today. ...

20. Appearing to hold a grudge over arrest of son, Gadhafi will push to abolish Switzerland during U.N. visit
(World/International)

... for the dismemberment of Switzerland. The tiny alpine country is the latest to be burned in its dealings with Libya, after a humiliating apology to Gaddafi over a diplomatic incident involving one of ...