European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 25, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 the stars and stripes tuesday february 25, 1992trans-Switzerland subway proposed source Swiss graphics news aft. Dean Caple Lausanne Switzerland apr Cross Switzerland in less than half an hour by subway and not see the Alps. It is a novel idea a and a Good one supporters think. They View the Swiss metro project As an Ideal complement to the Small nations dense network of Public transport. Late in january a new Effort was begun toward realizing the idea of sending underground trains hurtling through Switzerland at 250 Miles an hour or More. A company was set up in Bern with Money from Industry and the government to a develop and promote the Swiss metro project and eventually seek a construction License. Lausanne Engineer Rodolphe Nieth conceived the idea in 1970 and a feasibility study done by German experts at the Swiss transport ministry a request proved favourable. Initial results of a More comprehensive study Are a of great Promise and confirm the advantages of the system a Nieth said. He thinks Switzerland a special Topography Scarcity of land and growing concern for the environment soon will bar surface transportation projects. For Swiss metro Nieth envisages parallel Tunnel tubes with a diameter of Only 15 feet magnets would keep the trains suspended a few inches above the track and electric motors would provide Power. Electric pumps would keep air resistance in the tubes equal to what a jetliner encounters at 50,000 feet reducing Energy consumption to a fraction of that for surface a a Bullet trains Nieth said in an interview. Using magnetic suspension would keep Wear to a minimum further reducing operating costs he said. Swiss transport minister Adolf Ogi commented favourably on Swiss metro at an International conference. Nieth said he regularly gets requests for information from abroad including the United states proponents who include several professors at the renowned technical University in Lausanne estimate it will Cost $8 billion to build the initial line from Geneva in southwestern Switzerland to St. Gall in the Northeast. Travel time now 257 minutes by conventional train would be Cut to 72 minutes for the 200-mile trip including stops at Lausanne Bern Lucerne and Zurich the ultimate goal is a 425-mile network connectable to High Speed surface systems in neighbouring France Germany and Italy. It would Cost an additional $10 billion to build and would Cut the time from Basel on the Border with Germany to Bellinzona on the italian Frontier to 27 minutes. Completing the first Geneva St. Gall Section would take 15 years with another 10 years needed for the rest. Nieth believes Low operating costs will attract investors to Swiss metro. A even if there is 30 percent error in the estimate of the investment operating costs would increase Only by about 5 percent a he  iceman is from Stone age tests show by the new York times Carbon dating tests show that the Well preserved body of a prehistoric human Hunter found in an Alpine Glacier last year is 5,000 to 5,500 years old scientists report. The first scientifically established age for the Frozen Corpse is More than 1,000 years older than original estimates. It Means the Man lived and presumably froze to death Well before the Bronze age replaced the Stone age in Europe. A now we know he a not from the Bronze age but much older a said or. Werner Platzer head of the Anatomy department at Innsbruck University in aus mount Everest attracting record 14 expeditions Katmandu Nepal up a record 14 expeditions will attempt to scale the 29,028-foot mount Everest the worlds tallest Peak from different routes the tourism ministry said in announcing its annual Spring hiking permits. The nepalese tourism ministry gave permission Friday for 40 expeditions to climb 17 Himalayan peaks during the period of March through May. Last fall 11 expeditions tried to scale Everest the favorite Challenge of International climbers. This year a 20-member team led by Todd Burleson 32, a Mountain guide from Woodinville wash., will attempt the Peak from the South pillar route. Three Spanish two Indian two russian expeditions and one expedition each from Ukraine Chile Holland Britain new zealand and France will attempt the climb from the pillar the Southeast Ridge the Southwest face and the difficult West Ridge chilean climbers Are to attempt a Conquest of Everest for the first time. . Climbers have also been granted permission to scale the 22,350-foot Ama dab am the 26,750-foot Cho you and the worlds fifth tallest Peak the 27,824-foot Makalu i. Tria who is directing research on the mummified Corpse. A a that a very important. It Means i believe that this is the Only Corpse we have from the Stone  the tests on Bones and skin tissue were conducted by scientists at Oxford University in England and a Swiss is Institute in Zurich. The results were announced physic by Ini 3y Innsbruck University which is keeping the body in cold storage and supervising one of the most unusual Post Mort Ems in history. Or. Rupert Housley a researcher at the Oxford radiocarbon accelerator unit said in an interview by Telephone from Innsbruck that the analysis showed the Alpine iceman lived in one of three intervals from 3500 . To 3000 . He said the Oxford and Zurich re sults based on similar dating techniques were in close agreement but it was impossible to be sure of a More precise age. The tests showed the skin to be a marginally younger than the Bone tissue Housley said but this was to be expected since a living human body is replacing skin More frequently than Bone tissue. The Corpse was found in september in a Glacier 10,500 feet up in the austrian Alps close to the italian Border. The body was mummified and its leather and fur clothing was badly deteriorated. But scholars of prehistoric people were fascinated by a leather quiver with 14 arrows and an a found by the iceman a Side. R y. On the take a bum is a 2-week-old Mico Monkey who has been taking his nourishment via an Eye Dropper held by German scientist Ludwig Muller. His Mother chose to feed Only her two other babies leaving bum As the Odd Monkey out. Muller specializes in tropical animals and works in Al Juela Costa Rica