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...news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring, researcher at the University of Gothenburg's Institute of Journalism and Mass Communication in Sweden. "They are read by young people, immigrants, the unemployed and people with low income. This is very positive." And free news doesn't necessarily mean second-hand news. Staffed with more than 400 journalists worldwide, Metro International fills an average...
Born in Ethiopia, Samuelsson was orphaned at age 3 by a tuberculosis epidemic in his homeland. He and his elder sister were adopted by a Swedish couple and grew up in the port city of Gothenburg. Samuelsson began cooking when he was about 6 at the side of his Swedish grandmother, Helga Jonsson. "I learned the most about food from my grandmother," he says. "Her world completely revolved around food." After a stint at culinary school, followed by work in kitchens throughout Europe, Samuelsson became executive chef at New York City's sleek Aquavit in 1995 when he was only...
...state, she feels as if she has to "work four times as hard to show my credibility because people are only perceived as objective if they think like the majority." Since Sept. 11, she has also seen more public criticism of Islam. Following a talk Roald gave recently at Gothenburg University, she recalls an audience member saying: "'Islam is the root of all the evil in the world.' He wasn't rational, but nobody in the audience responded. They just sat there." How do you make sure that people don't just sit there any more? She points...
...Prime Minister Bertie Ahern voted 54-46% against ratifying the European Union's Nice Treaty, and in so doing, managed to throw the ungainly process of reforming and expanding the E.U. into chaos. As Ahern, embarrassed and chastened, scrambled last week to recover, delegates at the E.U. summit in Gothenburg wondered whether the no vote should be ignored as a quirky bleat from a peripheral country, or be heeded, like the warble of a canary in a coal mine, as a crucial warning...
...seems untethered to the messy, awkward reality of existing institutions. Privately, many senior E.U. leaders worry about its "democratic deficit" and institutional sclerosis. Even in public, European Commission President Romano Prodi said, "I wasn't enthusiastic the morning after Nice and haven't changed my view since." But at Gothenburg, the consensus was that it's up to Ahern, not the E.U., to figure out how to finesse the problem Ireland's pesky voters have created...