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...memo, Laboratory Manager Barbara Skane informed all lab staff of changes in the packaging used for moving the specimens. She also acknowledged that the lab had been using paper bags to carry specimens. The memo gave no reason for the change...
Reached at her home yesterday and questioned outside her office Friday, Barbara Skane, the laboratory manager, refused to comment...
...Nonetheless, the chill caused severe hardships. More than half of Denmark's 200 inhabited islands were cut off from the mainland. Icebreakers had to work day and night to free some 15 vessels from the frozen sound between Denmark and Sweden. Following a blizzard in the Swedish province of Skane, where temperatures dipped to -11 degrees, people were warned that they risked death if they ventured outdoors...
...involves entering a twilight world of official corruption. Corporation executives doing business in Kenya are often asked by high government officials for "contributions" to various charities, though some doubt that the money ends up in the coffers of such worthy recipients as hospitals or orphanages. Early this year, James Skane, the American managing director of Esso Standard in Kenya, was declared a "prohibited immigrant" and summarily expelled from the country after he aggressively tried to collect some $70,000 in unpaid fuel bills. Unfortunately for Skane, it turned out that the money was owed by a series of farms reportedly...
...Oerter in 1968. He holds the record again (224 ft. 5 in.) as he goes to Munich, and Oerter has retired. But Silvester's top competition, Ricky Bruch of Sweden, has not. Once notorious for his temper tantrums and a tempestuous love life, the bearded "Giant from Skane" seems to have settled down as a serious contender...