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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3589432,00.html">An Israeli company has managed to sell a locally made snow machine to Switzerland, a country whose middle names are winter and ski.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3589432,00.html">After last year's snow fall was delayed, and the ski slopes went without snow for most of the season, the Swiss began to worry about their successful tourist business.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3589432,00.html">Swiss media outlets reported that due to the severity of the problem, scientists were called in and were now looking into what is being described as a groundbreaking solution: A system that would allow the snow to last even into the hot summer months.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3589432,00.html">In a month's time, an Israeli made snow cannon will be put into use in</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3589432,00.html">Zermatt</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3589432,00.html">The cost of this 30-ton, 11-meter (36-feet) machine is about NIS 7 million ($1.9 million).</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.daylife.com/photo/0fB35JpgO7b7T" href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/0fB35JpgO7b7T" style="font-size: 11px;">www.daylife.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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Due to a real lack of snow this winter, more and more snow is produced by this kind of cannon in Austria. In Italy, desperate World Cup skiing organisers have had to draft in a battery of cannons to fire artificial snow onto their slopes in time for downhill events on Thursday and Friday. 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