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Touring the caves at Vallorbe: high in the Jura mountains, in the town of Vallorbe, lies the underground source of the Orbe River in one of the most fascinating and beautiful natural wonders in Suisse Romande
The Orbe River begins in France and flows into the Lac de Joux. From there, it gushes over stones and down forested slopes to meet the river called...
Swiss News, 05/01/06 by Helen McCarthy · More from publication -
Promoting Specialty Care for Lyme Disease: Lessons Learned
LYME DISEASE (LD) is currently the most frequently reported vector-borne illness in the United States. Lyme Disease is endemic in Rhode Island,...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 05/01/06 by Hall-Walker, Carol; Lundquist, Carla; McCarthy, Helen · More from publication -
Art Brut: an art gallery unlike any other, this collection near the heart of Lausanne questions the meaning of art and our very definitions of 'normal' and 'abnormal'
The Art Brut movement was conceived by Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), a French painter who began his research in Switzerland in 1945. He is also...
Swiss News, 01/01/06 by Helen McCarthy · More from publication -
Ambassador sees learning opportunity: Joseph Lynch, Ireland's Ambassador to Switzerland, talks to Swiss News about Swiss-Irish relations and the life of an Ambassador
Joseph Lynch has been Ambassador of Ireland to the Swiss Confederation for nearly two years. He has spent almost his entire career in the Irish...
Swiss News, 10/01/05 by Helen McCarthy · More from publication -
The museum of horology: the Musee International d'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds is one of the best known watch museums in the Suisse Romande area—and with good reason
Set in what resembles an underground nuclear bunker, the museum has a fascinating collection of watches, clocks and a smattering of musical boxes....
Swiss News, 04/01/05 by Helen McCarthy · More from publication -
Absinthe: the 'green fairy'
Think of Swiss food products and you invariably come up with the usual--cheese, chocolate, maybe Kirsch. But what many people don't know,...
Swiss News, 04/01/05 by Helen McCarthy · More from publication -
The wine museum in Boudry: at the top of the town of Boudry, on a gentle and tranquil cobbled hilly road, with magnificent views to the Jura mountains, the Areuse valley and Lake Neuchatel in the distance, stands a small but attractive chateau, housing th
Opened in 1981 in a castle that dates from the 12th and 13th centuries, the museum of Vine and Wine chronicles the history of wine-making in the...
Swiss News, 11/01/04 by Helen McCarthy · More from publication -
Reptile-associated salmonellosis: A preventable pediatric infection
EPIDEMIOLOGY Salmonellosis, a major cause of diarrheal illness in the United States, causes an estimated 14 million illnesses and 600 deaths...
Medicine and Health Rhode Island, 01/01/03 by Bandy, Utpala; McCarthy, Helen; Hannafin, Christopher · More from publication -
Cousins in tragic burglary get custody
Two cousins have been sentenced to youth custody after carrying out a burglary at the home of a frail Birmingham grandmother who died just...
Birmingham Post (England), The, 02/11/00 by ROSS McCARTHY; Helen Bruce · More from publication
