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...with his love of fly fishing in the isolated fjords of Chilean Patagonia. Charging fly fisherman $15,000 a week and ecotourists $10,000, Ergas' lure is the chance to travel in style to the end of the earth - and leave no trace. Onboard, it's like a trendy Scandinavian penthouse: white floors, outdoor jacuzzis, ambient grooves trickling through iTunes. The staff of 33 read like a Who's Who of Chilean military and academia: the captain once commanded the Chilean Navy SEALs, the expedition leader was in command of Augusto Pinochet's bodyguards, and Gian Paolo Sanino, the scientist...
...both the new Iraqi arrivals and their Scandinavian hosts, coexistence has not come easily. Swedish officials fret about the potential security risks and the costs posed by a swelling population of displaced Muslims. Although relieved to have escaped the grinding violence of Iraq, Sweden's Iraqis face the prospect of having to rebuild shattered lives and find work in an alien society. For many, the trauma of Iraq is inescapable. Recent arrivals like Alaa say they fear being hunted down by sectarian rivals in Stockholm. "We don't know who is who here," says Alaa. In a Swedish government asylum...
Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal...
...differs between racial or ethnic populations. Swedes were the subjects of choice in the study because they are known to be heavy coffee consumers and rarely come into contact with decaffeinated coffee, according to Rosner. Barbara Ruhs, a dietician and nutritionist at Harvard University Health Services, pointed out that Scandinavian coffee is typically boiled, whereas coffee in the U.S. is filtered before consumption and thus has much more cholesterol raising substances that could lead to coronary heart disease. “I don’t think these results can be generalized to American college students,” Ruhs...
According to the Core program, only four courses in the English Department and one course in Scandinavian can provide the “variety of critical and analytical approaches to literature” needed to satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement. Likewise, tutorials, some of the hardest classes at Harvard, don’t count because they lack a final exam. And because only pedagogical technique matters in Core-world, the material covered has become increasingly specific and trite...