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...elevator doors opened into a cavernous room in an underground tunnel outside Geneva. Out came the eminent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, in a wheelchair as always. He was there to behold a wondrous sight. Before him loomed a giant device called a particle detector, a component of an incredible machine whose job is to accelerate tiny fragments of matter to nearly the speed of light, then smash them together with a fury far greater than any natural collision on earth...
Padron's challenge stems from a dispute with an ex-customer, Zino Davidoff of Geneva, whose company had been buying about 11 million of Cuba's 70 million cigars a year. Davidoff, 84, canceled the arrangement last year and shifted production to the Dominican Republic and Honduras. Fumes Davidoff: "The fact is, the Cubans don't produce the same quality anymore...
...Register's editors, who expected a torrent of canceled ads and subscriptions, were surprised by Iowa's overwhelmingly favorable reaction. Even more calls of support poured in after a story about the series was front- paged by the New York Times last week. Geneva Overholser, the Register's editor, believes strongly that the American press should be franker in reporting sexual assaults. "We are participating in the stigma of rape by treating victims of this crime differently," says Overholser. "When we as a society refuse to talk openly about rape, I think we weaken our ability to deal with...
...superpowers and Europeans may now be persuaded to renew efforts in Geneva to halt the spread of nuclear and chemical weapons. But the sad fact is that rulers like Saddam, whose country has already signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, operate outside international law. And thus it is only a matter of time before someone as single-minded as Saddam acquires the ability to annihilate a foe with atomic weapons...
...morning after the theft, there were outbursts of fantasy about a supergang of ultraprofessionals, specialists in pinching masterpieces for some Dr. No in a remote art bunker outside Osaka, Bogota or Geneva. Even the museum's director, Anne Hawley, suggested that the robbers had been following a "hit list" given them by a mastermind collector. But it seems unlikely. Apart from a Greek plutocrat who tried, and failed, to commission some heavies to lift a Raphael from a museum in Budapest in 1983, no trace of this glamorous fiction has ever been found in real life. This was more like...