Geneva

On March 25, 2007, GENEVA Y., devoted sister of Idella L. Stanton. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Sunday after 10 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Monday at 2 P.M. Funeral services will follow at 2:30 P.M.

GENEVA -- In a 17-mile circular tunnel curving beneath the Swiss-French border, scientists are poised to re-create the universe's first trillionth of a second. The aim of the audacious undertaking -- whose centerpiece is the Large Hadron Collider, the largest, most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed -- is to solve one of the most perturbing puzzles of physics: How did matter attain mass and form the cosmos? Even Einstein couldn't nail that one. The collider and its multibillion-dollar array of ancillary instruments are designed to re-create and identify the most infinitesimal of subatomic substances -- the material that built the galaxies -- as they blaze into existence with fantastic energy and disappear with such rapidity as to make the blink of an eye seem an eternity.

Two days after Magdalena Sudnik installed her sundial sculpture at the Inner Harbor, she drove by the site and noticed something most unpleasant. "I glanced over," Sudnik recalled, "And it's gone. The Baltimore sundial is gone." The piece, titled Time is Now, is a metal circular rim that is propped 4 feet off the ground by two legs. The rim encircles a trio of dinner plate-sized sundials -- each calibrated to show the time in a different city: Timbuktu, Geneva and Baltimore. "I kind of wanted to show people that we're all connected though time," she said.

GENEVA -- Swiss and German bankers played a key role in propping up South Africa's apartheid government, according to a report last week by groups seeking billions of dollars in reparations and debt forgiveness for the current South African government.When most governments around the world were boycotting South Africa under United Nations sanctions, major Swiss and German banks continued to give billions of dollars in loans, the groups said.American banks started to scale back their involvement in South Africa from 1985 to 1986, but money continued to flow into the country.

GENEVA -- Switzerland's most right-wing political party surged to stunning gains yesterday in the country's parliamentary elections, apparently capturing the largest share of the vote nationwide and raising fears that this middle-of-the-road country is following its neighbor Austria into political conservatism.Televised exit polls from the nationwide elections showed the Swiss People's Party captured an estimated 23 percent of the votes cast for the lower house, up from 15 percent in the last elections in 1995.

GENEVA -- They have cleared the Alps, crossed Africa and Asia and the great Pacific. They have skirted war zones and bumped through storms. They've been practically becalmed, traveling as slow as 20 mph, using up precious fuel at 8,000 feet. And they have hurtled at speeds up to 115 mph in the jet streams at more than 35,000 feet.They have been chilled and frightened, mesmerized and challenged on an aerial journey for the ages -- the quest to become the first human beings to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon.

Alfred Haessig, 78, a Red Cross doctor who was convicted of supervising distribution of HIV-infected blood products to hemophiliacs, died Sunday in Geneva, Switzerland, after a long illness.In December, a Geneva court held that Dr. Haessig, a former director of the Swiss central laboratory of the Red Cross, put people at risk through his actions in the 1980s. The court said he had acted out of "pride and stubbornness."

GENEVA -- With tensions rising on the Korean peninsula, the United States and North Korea opened new talks here yesterday over whether North Korea would allow inspections of a suspected underground nuclear facility.The talks, which are to continue today, precede a new round of four-way meetings planned here next week aimed at reaching a formal peace treaty for the peninsula, where war ended 46 years ago.This would be the fourth such gathering in the past 13 months of North and South Korea and their chief allies, China and the United States.

GENEVA -- A campaign began yesterday to inform victims of Nazi persecution how to claim compensation from a $1.25 billion fund set up by two Swiss banks.People can apply even if they or their relatives never had a Swiss account. A full-page advertisement ordered by a U.S. court is being published in 500 newspapers and magazines in 40 countries.Toll-free numbers and a World Wide Web site in seven languages, including Yiddish, have been set up, said the World Jewish Congress, which, with a panel of lawyers, oversees the effort.

GENEVA -- The lights at the World Trade Organization headquarters near Lake Geneva are on late these nights. The 135-nation organization, responsible for seeing that the export-import trade in each of its members is conducted fairly and freely, is preparing for a gathering in Seattle on Tuesday that could outline the foreign-trade rules of the next century.The meeting, bringing together trade ministers of its members, is expected to take up questions as varied as health hazards of genetically engineered food and French quotas on American movies and television programs.

JERUSALEM - -When President Barack Obama announced efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program through diplomatic engagement, the concern in Israel was that open-ended talks would allow the Islamic republic time to continue toward its suspected goal of developing a nuclear weapon. But as that engagement took its first major step Thursday in meetings in Geneva, the Israelis are tempering their doubts. The recent disclosure of a second Iranian uranium-enrichment plant appears to have stiffened the resolve of the United States and other Western powers, Israeli officials and analysts said.

GENEVA - -Iran will allow inspections of its secret atomic facility near Qom and the major powers will hold another round of negotiations this month on the Islamic republic's nuclear program, officials said Thursday after completing talks in Geneva, where U.S. and Iranian representatives also held a rare one-on-one meeting. Iran said it would allow inspections of its uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom, said Javier Solana, the European Union's top foreign policy official.

On March 30, 2009 GENEVA devoted grandmother of 10 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, numerous great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 McCulloh Street, on Friday 2-9 p.m. Family will receive friends Saturday 10-11 a.m. at the New Friendship Baptist Church, Eager and Bond Streets with services following. Interment King Memorial Park.

On November 16, 2008; Geneva Belton, On Friday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike from 3:00 - 8:00P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Belton will lie instate at Vaughn C. Greene Randallstown Chapel, 8728 Liberty Road where the family will receive friends from 11:30 - 1:00P.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

On October 14, 2008, GENEVA DUBOSE; devoted mother of Alvin J. Eddins and Michael Dubose, Jr.; beloved daughter of Odesser Eddins; loving sister of Pastor Rebecca Eddins, Reatha Eddins, Elizabeth Eddins, Clinton Eddins and Larry Eddins. She is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. On Sunday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 3 to 8 P.M. On Monday, the family will receive friends at the Vaughn C. Greene Chapel-Randallstown from 10:30 to 11 A.M. with services to follow.

On September 20, 2008, CORRINE GENEVA JOYNER. On Wednesday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike, from 4 to 8 P.M. On Thursday, Ms. Joyner will lie in state at Concord Baptist Church, 5204 Liberty Heights Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

On May 20, 2008 GENEVA WEATHERS. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Monday after 10 a.m. where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. Funeral service will follow at 12 p.m.

On May 14, 2008 GENEVA. Devoted wife of Raymond E. Thompson. The family will receive friends at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 1500 N. Caroline St. on Saturday at 11 A.M. No viewing of remains. Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 12noon. In lieu of flowers contributions to Knights of Peter Claver Court #323, The 4th Degree Ladies of Grace Council 41 and Sodality of Blessed Virgin Mary of St. Francis Xavier.

On May 14, 2008 GENEVA. Devoted wife of Raymond E. Thompson. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Friday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 1500 N. Caroline St. on Saturday at 11 A.M. No viewing of remains. Mass of Christian Burial will follow at 11:30 A.M. In lieu of flowers contributions to Knights of Peter Claver Court #323, The 4th Degree Ladies of Grace Council 41 and Sodality of Blessed Virgin Mary of St. Francis Xavier.

On March 31, 2008, GENEVA BARTZ FRANCE; beloved wife of the late Deacon Chester A. France, Sr. and cherished mother of Chester (Yvonne) and Sterling (Evelyn) and the late Craig W. France. Viewing at the JOSEPH L. RUSS FUNERAL HOME P.A., 2222-26 W. North Avenue, on Sunday from 2-6 P.M. Family hour on Monday, at Fulton Baptist Church, 1630 W. North Avenue, from 11 A.M. until 12 noon, when funeral service will begin.