April 01, 2011
Index
- Fuel prices set to soar.
- Currency threat to business.
- [Cartoon].
- Swiss microcosm.
- Submitting snake oil to science: next year, Switzerland's obligatory health insurance coverage will be extended to include five alternative therapies--including homeopathy and traditional Chinese medicine. Swiss News explores what this development means for all of us ...
- Investing with passion.
- Lucerne: come stay and grow with us.
- Exhibits at your fingertips: the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne is home to many of Switzerland's most iconic vehicles. If it floats, flies, drives or hovers, you will find it among the museum's many exhibits. And now, thanks to a new road-transport exhibition, the vehicles that transformed a nation are now transforming the museum world.
- Lucerne: the city. The lake. The mountains.
- Switzerland's ultimate birdhouse: photographed from every angle by visitors, this Lucerne landmark appears on nearly every piece of the city's promotional material. The Water Tower has been many things over the centuries, including an archive, treasury, armoury and prison. Today, this prime property even serves as a birdhouse.
- What's on: Lucerne Festival at Easter.
- Expat guides: conventional wisdom tells us that the most effective tour guide should be a native of the region. Yet guides who come from elsewhere have the capacity to filter the local scene through the prism of an expat--straddling two cultures--and focus on the details that make a place come alive.
- Geneva's 'food mile': Celebrated for its gastronomic excellence and its international outlook, Geneva offers a world of fine dining options. But restaurants aside, the city also has a wealth of specialist fine-food retailers just waiting to be discovered. Located within easy reach of one another, these shops make up what this foodie has come to know as Geneva's 'food mile'.
- Will you have fouines with that? when protecting your belongings, it's good to know that Swiss insurance companies go the ends of the earth--and beyond--to make sure you are suitably covered ...
- Brian Ciegg: Inflight Science.
- Julian Assange: Wikileaks Versus the World: My Story.
- Stephen L. Carter: The Violence of Peace.
- Charles MacLean: Malt Whisky.
- Wilbur Smith: Those in Peril.
- Paul Allen: Idea Man.
- Tristan Garcia: Hate: A Romance.
- Natasha Solomons: The Novel in the Viola.
- Stephen Kelman: Pigeon English.
- Jenny Colgan: Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe.
- Club news.