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--land — which after all has a reputation as a serious, punctual country — will be dragged into the mud," said Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger at a news conference late Tuesday, unable to contain his fury at the banks.
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Swissair grounds flights; travelers stay in bunkers
The Associated Press
GENEVA — About 38,000 people were stranded worldwide and tens of thousands more held worthless tickets yesterday, as Swissair desperately sought the cash for upfront payment of fuel and airport taxes.
At Zurich airport — the worst hit by the chaos — passengers without a flight or hotel faced the prospect of a second straight night in a nuclear bunker.
The crisis came despite a rescue package put together Monday by Swiss banking giants UBS and Credit Suisse after Swissair filed for protection from creditors — a step short of bankruptcy.
The deal was intended to give the airline time to reorganize without being carved up in a bankruptcy court.
However, a cash advance necessary to meet running costs failed to materialize as scheduled Tuesday because UBS chief Marcel Ospel couldn't be contacted to give the necessary approval. Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger was told that Ospel was traveling and couldn't be reached.
"Never in the history of this country has a democratically elected government been so humiliated by a bank manager," said a front-page editorial in Zurich's Tagesanzeiger.
At an emergency session yesterday, the Swiss government agreed to provide a bridging loan of up to $281 million to help Swissair resume its flights today and stay in the air until the end of October.
UBS received at least two bomb threats yesterday and disgusted clients closed accounts.
"the trust in Swiss economy, the trust in the whole of Switzerland."
The government, which belatedly offered to provide a bridging loan, came under criticism itself for doing too little too late.
Some 10,000 demonstrators including top managers of Swissair massed in front of UBS headquarters yesterday in an unprecedented protest against the powerful banks. Uniformed pilots waved banners at Zurich's main railway station and most expensive shopping street.
Scientists find language gene
The Associated Press
Scientists say they have discovered the first gene tied to a language and speech disorder — a find that may bring the genetics revolution closer to identifying the biological roots of conscious thought and defining what it means to be human.
The gene, FOXP2, is not specifically a gene that enables us to talk. Instead, it is responsible for a protein that enables the brain's language circuituity to function.
The researchers say they discovered a mutated form of FOXP2 that is associated with a speech disorder that impairs movement of the mouth, lips and tongue and causes problems such as use of the wrong word tense.
mechanics of cognitive thought, how babies develop into adults and even how humans evolved from lower forms of life.
Some researchers suggest the discovery is a clue into the
Their finding appears in the current issue of the journal Nature.
Researchers from the Oxford team and the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Unit of the Institute of Child Health in London studied three generations of a large family in England, identified only as the KEs. About half of its 24 members are affected with the speech disorder.
Researchers believe the mutation on FOXP2 causes a breakdown in the gene's ability to regulate other genes.
The researchers reached a breakthrough when they studied a person with the same disorder who was not related to the fam-
The researchers looked for the same mutation in the same place in the KE family, and found it.
ity. The gene in this individual was found to be disrupted by a shift in DNA on chromosome 7.
Steven Pinker of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said he does not believe language impairments could be linked to a single gene. Other researchers said it is also premature to conclude from this study whether a gene or genes are solely responsible for language in humans.
"I know everyone would like a nice simple 'Yes, Eureka! We found it,'" said Bruce Tomblin, professor of speech pathology and audiology at the University of Iowa. "But it's not that simple."
Judge rules Reno liable for injuries
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Former Attorney General Janet Reno can be sued by protesters and bystanders injured during the raid to seize Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home, a federal judge has ruled.
U. S. District Judge K. Michael Moore ruled Tuesday that Reno's position as attorney general did not give her immunity from being sued for the raid, which she ordered.
Fifty-two people sued Reno and two other officials for at least $100 million, claiming federal agents gassed, beat and threatened them during the raid on April 22, 2000.
Moore dismissed the suit against the other federal officials because they had not ordered the raid. He also ruled that five plaintiffs could not sue because they were not injured.
The judge also dismissed allegations of excessive force. He ruled the raid was "neither particularly violent, nor was the number of law enforcement officers disproportionate to the . . . need to maintain order."
Reno, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in Florida, did not immediately return phone calls yesterday seeking comment.
Justice Department attorneys who have been representing Reno in the suit will not comment until they review the ruling, spokesman Charles Miller said.
No trial date has been set.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group representing the plaintiffs, said Reno acted irresponsibly in ordering the raid to return Elian, then 6, to his father in Cuba.
Fitton said that Reno knew bystanders' constitutional rights would be violated and she didn't care.
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