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Holidays are meant to lift the soul, but the tacky realities of package travel all too often keep one earthbound. Geneva-based hiking company A Different View transports its customers closer to heaven with its tours through the high-altitude areas around Geneva, and the neighboring Haute-Savoie region of France, pictured. "We customize our hikes and meals to suit guests' wishes, and focus on local points of interest: plant and animal life, as well as culinary delights," says owner Trish Thalman. Her business partner, local Pierre Zuppiroli, guides hikers up mountain Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative...
...GENEVA Swiss women are crazy for Givenchy's Eye Fly mascara ($22), maybe because this city has a Givenchy...
...comply with all U.S. laws and treaty obligations in their treatment of detainees. When there have been abuses those violations are taken seriously, acted upon promptly, investigated thoroughly, and the wrongdoers are held accountable." U.S. military officers in Baghdad insist they're following United Nations Security Council resolutions, the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law in their handling of suspects that American or Iraqi forces capture in military operations. They say each detainee's case is regularly reviewed both by U.S. officers and Iraqi government officials to determine if the person should be released, remain imprisoned because he's a threat...
...week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners access to a trial. Most of the prisoners currently held at Guantanamo were captured during the invasion of Afghanistan which began in October 2001. Many “Gitmo?...
...lights come down the babies who are aware of the film are hypnotized by it, or they fall asleep. Every now and then there's an odd scream, but nobody gets upset." Inspired by a mothers' support group, the Swiss supermarket chain Coop now sponsors infant-friendly screenings in Geneva and Lausanne. And in the U.S., Loew's Cineplex is offering Reel Moms sessions in 20 cities. So moms and dads, rejoice-your cinemagoing is far from cinema gone...