Word: stockholm
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...least six other cities are vying for the Games. Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Beijing and a cooperation between Detroit and Windsor, a city in Canada, are all in the running...
...that of the British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise in the Belgian port of Zeebrugge in 1987 -- means these kinds of vessels may be too dangerous for passenger service. There had been little reason to fear for the Estonia when it steamed out of Tallinn on Tuesday, bound for Stockholm on its thrice-weekly run. Two Swedish inspectors noted wear on the rubber seals of the large, watertight bow doors but concluded it was not serious enough to require immediate repair. The weather on Tuesday was bad -- winds gusting to 62 m.p.h., raising seas as high...
...chivalry." Perhaps there was no time for chivalry aboard the Estonia. Many children, mothers and elderly people were asleep in cabins deep within the ship. Patrons in the upper-deck bars were mainly males. "In the circumstances, it is clear who will survive," said Dr. Steffan Torngren, of Stockholm's Soder Hospital, where 31 victims were treated. "It would be those who are most fit, those who are young, those experienced with the sea and the ship...
...Nobel prizes will be announced beginning next week in Stockholm. The literature prize, worth about $930,000, will be announced on a Thursday in October--after only a few days' notice to the winner and the world, wrote The Associated Press...
Police in Brussels recovered Picasso's Woman with Dark Eyes, one of seven artworks stolen last November in a $75 million heist from Stockholm's Modern Art Museum. Three Swedes reportedly tried to sell the painting, worth an estimated $7 million, to undercover agents posing as prospective buyers...