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...FILED. A COMPLAINT to the World Trade Organization by the U.S. accusing China of unfair trade practices; in Geneva. The complaint was the first lodged against China since it joined the international trade body in 2001. The U.S. says that tax rebates China grants to domestic semiconductor makers give them an unfair pricing advantage over foreign chipmakers exporting their products to China...
...Medals, shmedals! Forget all the hullabaloo about Bush's Guard service and Kerry's war decorations. The real question is: Who is honest? We know who is not! And that's pretty fundamental to November's presidential election. Ian Frank Geneva...
...Gisin's lab called ID Quantique developed a quantum key that allows for communication--say, transactions between banks--that is completely inoculated against code-breaking attacks. Because the information is being transported in an unconventional way, it's impossible to track. The technology is being considered by the Geneva canton government for use in e-voting and other programs. "This is the way of the future," says Gisin, "and we can't afford not to be part of it." --By Sora Song. Reported by Helena Bachmann/Geneva
...concept of quantum teleportation, first postulated in 1993 by IBM researcher Charles Bennet, has been likened to voodoo. But it is a reality, due in large part to the work of Nicolas Gisin, 52, and his 20 or so graduate students and research assistants at the University of Geneva's Group of Applied Physics. In the basement of the university's old medical-school building, Gisin commands a series of laboratories crisscrossed with laser beams and crowded with the gizmos that make teleportation possible: photon counters, interferometers and plain old mirrors that bounce the lasers around. Last year Gisin...
Teresa came by her fortune with her marriage to Heinz, the heir to the Pittsburgh, Pa., ketchup-and-pickle conglomerate, whom she met when she was studying at the University of Geneva to be an interpreter. (She's fluent in five languages.) Heinz told her his family made soup back in the States. She still calls him "the love of my life." When Heinz died in a 1991 plane crash, she turned down a chance to run for his Senate seat and poured her energy instead into refocusing how the Heinz family's philanthropic network deploys its $2 billion...