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...international delegates (sometimes even heads of state) barricaded inside heavily fortified conference venues as riot police outside battle anti-globalization protestors. The World Bank's annual meeting in Prague last September was cut short by street protests, and an outbreak of violence at the European Union summit in Gothenburg last week - during which live ammunition was fired at demonstrators by Sweden's quintessentially tolerant authorities - underscored the danger. Organizers had feared that a counter-summit organized by French and Spanish groups would disrupt the bank's own proceedings...
Suman Grewal and Katarina Käll are friends. Not best friends, the 14-year-old girls are quick to clarify, but good friends nonetheless. They attend Hjällboskolan, a school on the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden's second-largest city, where the student body covers such a spectrum of backgrounds that headmaster Lars-Peter Ekenberg estimates more than 100 nationalities are represented. Suman, whose parents are from India, was born in Sweden. Katarina's family has been in Sweden for generations, but the same is not true of most of her classmates and friends. "I hang out mostly...
...students are so-called native Swedes-those with long-standing roots in the country-so you might think that most of them would, like Katarina, study alongside their immigrant peers, developing friendships along the way. Not so. Most of Hjällboskolan's classrooms and most of Gothenburg's schools are, in effect, segregated...
Last week Carlsson, 77, a professor emeritus at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, finally won a Nobel. Sharing the prize for Physiology or Medicine with him were Columbia University's Eric Kandel, 70, who laid bare the molecular foundations of learning and memory, and Rockefeller University's Paul Greengard, 74, who elucidated the chemical cascade touched off by dopamine and other neurotransmitters. In each case, the Nobel was surely long overdue and richly deserved...
...lack of recognition of Johnson is a mystery. His feats alone would demand attention. He is gracious with the press, and he even has something to offer in the way of hobbies. Johnson, for instance, is simpatico with all things motorized. His most cherished memory of Gothenburg was not the 200 victory or the 400, but rather the tour of the Volvo factory, when he was able to test-drive cars and trucks. He also likes to play tennis, and he must be a sight to see going back on lobs. Given all that, Michael Johnson isn't even...