GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 18-year-old driver of a stolen car, whose alcohol level was just within the legal limits, crashed through a Dardagny vineyard in canton Geneva early Saturday 8 March during a high-speed chase. Story continues on Ellen’s Wine World
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Straight to the source: vineyard car crash
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – An 18-year-old driver of a stolen car, whose alcohol level was just within the legal limits, crashed through a Dardagny vineyard in canton Geneva early Saturday 8 March after a high-speed chase. Geneva police say the youth, who is French and lives in Pessinge, was spotted driving over the limit at 05:00 […]
WHO recommends sharp sugar cuts
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The World Health Organization is recommending that adults consume no more than about 25 grams of sugar (roughly 6 teaspoons) a day, limiting intake to 5 percent of total calories consumed, a figure that has not been seen in many parts of the industrialized world since the 1800s (source: Planetoscope) The new […]
Swiss GM watch: no stray plants in 2013
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Genetically modified plants are banned in Switzerland and the federal government, working with the cantons, keeps a close eye out for stray plants: 2013 turned up no evidence of mavericks. Plants that appeared on sites already identified as contaminated in 2012 were destroyed. The Swiss Environmental Office established a programme in 2011 […]
Tippling at the Vatican (or in California?)
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Guardian carries an article that tries to puzzle out why the Vatican – population 800 and a bit, heavy on the adults – has such high wine consumption and why it rose in just one year from 62 litres per person to 74. The only good explanation seems to be an […]