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...look at how these devices may eventually be used, Finland offers some interesting insights. At the Helsinki airport, a Coke vending machine has a mobile number instead of a coin slot--dial up the machine and a Coke drops out, with the charge appearing on your phone bill. There's also a Helsinki car wash you can operate without leaving your car: dial...
...timing was never right. And the location was usually off as well. Early in the century, when young talent such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, Henri Matisse, Gertrude Stein and Gene Kelly flocked to Paris, making it the world capital of artistic ferment, Glimp set up his atelier in Helsinki. "The rent's cheap" was his cryptic explanation to friends and admirers who for years vainly urged him to relocate. By the time he did, Paris turned out to be occupied by the Nazis and all the cafes had switched from vin rouge to beer and spaetzle, which Glimp despised...
...supposed to cause harm? While distasteful, cloning humans for harvesting organs would not actually harm anyone. Executing people for doing "distasteful" things is characteristic of countries like Iran or Stalin's U.S.S.R. Is Krauthammer's attitude yet another indicator that this is where the U.S. is heading? PETTERI SULONEN Helsinki...
...Lord's eponymous debut, for instance, the wistful effect of songs like "Helsinki" and "He'd Be a Diamond" was enhanced by the simple production values of girl-and-guitar, while "Lights are Changing," the only band-backed song, set the album off to a more invigorating start. In fact, as an album, Mary Lou Lord provided hope that the folk genre goals of simplicity did not preclude melodiousness and rhythm...
...There has been enormous appetite for her art in New Mexico for any number of years," Hassrick says, "but it does say something about the endurance of O'Keeffe's reputation that it's causing so much interest now. Museums from Helsinki to Madrid have written to us about organizing O'Keeffe exhibitions, but we want this to be the central place to learn about her work, her life, her circle of contemporaries. That's what the permanent collection and temporary shows are going to provide...