Word: sweden
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Doaa Kassem, like most Egyptian women, is used to being catcalled and grabbed at by men in the crowded streets of Cairo. The 24-year-old executive secretary is well versed in women's rights, having studied the subject in Sweden, and she is bolder than most when it comes to dealing with her harassers. "I'm brave enough to stop them and tell them [what they're doing is wrong]," she says. Sometimes she even chases them down...
...those who have the hallmark brain lesions and plaques of Alzheimer's disease but no memory loss - also have enlarged neurons, compared with patients who suffer cognitive impairment. Dr. Diego Iacono, a neuropathology fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the future director of the Brain Bank at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, conducted several such studies in predominantly male populations, but his latest research, the study published in Neurology, demonstrates the same patterns in an entirely female population - of nuns. (See pictures of the sisters of Summit...
...Countries such as France, Finland, Italy, Sweden, and the U.K. are already eyeing nuclear power to help them meet emissions reductions targets, leaving Germany isolated among its E.U. and G-8 partners. And German Greens who continue to bang against the metal fences surrounding nuclear plants as they call for shutdowns are increasingly isolated among their European peers, some of whom see nuclear as a viable low-carbon alternative, however imperfect. (See pictures of the G-8 leaders letting their hair down...
...into the financial crisis - such as the British government-commissioned Turner Review, published in March - assigned such funds only a peripheral role in the tumult. National politicians have been quick to come to their defense. "It is not private equity that caused the crisis, nor hedge funds," Mats Odell, Sweden's financial markets minister said earlier this month in the context of the E.U.'s proposals. "But in some countries, the political debate portrays [them] as the problem." Paul Myners, a British government minister with responsibility for the U.K.'s financial-services sector - home to 80% of Europe's roughly...
...Amid strident criticism from industry and national governments, the proposals - currently being scrutinized by both the European Parliament and European Council, which represents national governments at the E.U. level - will almost certainly be amended. Sweden's Odell insisted the legislation was "a raw diamond that needs to be polished more." Myners, the British Minister, has vowed to "fight tooth and nail" to get the draft revised. Industry groups, meanwhile, have mounted keen lobbying campaigns. With nothing likely to enter into force before 2011, "there's one safeguard against it being introduced as it is," says AIMA's Baker...