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I\u2019m pleased, too, that it\u2019s being raised by people connected with Albert Einstein\u2019s alma mater<\/em>, the\u00a0Eidgen\u00f6ssische Technische Hochschule or ETH, in Z\u00fcrich, in my beloved Switzerland. \u00a0(By my count, Einstein is one of thirty or so Nobel laureates who\u2019ve studied or taught at the ETH.)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the six months that I served in the Swiss mission home at Pilatustrasse 11, in the Dolder area of Z\u00fcrich, I drove past the ETH \u2014 the \u201cFederal Institute of Technology\u201d \u2014 at least once or twice almost every day.<\/p>\n
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