Markku Wilenius, senior vice president of Allianz, looks ahead to 2050.
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Dan Dent leads the "Ghost Walk of Zurich"
There’s a side of Zurich not mentioned in the typical city guide – a side that is dark and mysterious. An Englishman brings this spooky aspect “back to life” though his self-created “Ghost Walk of Zurich”. The tour is both creepy and fun, making it the perfect diversion with Halloween on the horizon.
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http://www.swisster.ch/expats-ghost-walk-reveals-zurichs-hidden-haunts.html
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I only recently noticed this sign in Lucerne.
Triple-X fitness sounds fairly hard-core, even for athletes obsessed with performance …
… but a look in the shop window indicates that they merely mean XXXL, as in extra-large muscles. I knew it had to be something like that!
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The immensely successful as well as controversial BODY WORLDS exhibition is now on in Zurich. It features bodies that have been specially prepared to reveal muscles, organs, bones – and just about anything one would find beneath the skin.
Read the whole story here:
http://www.swisster.ch/en/news/dead-bodies-displayed-at-zurich-exhibition_121-2393715
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Full of bright ideas: Professor Aldo Steinfeld
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