I've never been a fan of the cold. As a kid, my favorite part of skiing was the hot chocolate, and I relished blizzards for the snow days, not the snowball fights. So when I booked a trip to the Icehotel in northern Sweden, my family and friends were amused -- and a bit concerned, especially when I got sick days before my flight. "You can't go to the Arctic with a cold!" my mother admonished.
On Malmo's waterfront, once the heart of the city's industrial base, an eye-popping 57-story apartment tower rises spectacularly, dominating the skyline.
Sweden's Parliament narrowly approved a law Wednesday that gives
authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone
traffic that crosses the Nordic nation's borders
Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of
plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant
Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the
2005 London transit bombings, officials said
Two players have left camp and at least one other is injured, so the choices for U.S. coach Bob Bradley will be limited somewhat when he names his 18 players who will face Sweden on Saturday at Home Depot Center (Fox Soccer Channel, 8:30 p.m. ET).
I've never been a fan of the cold. As a kid, my favorite part of skiing was the hot chocolate, and I relished blizzards for the snow days, not the snowball fights. So when I booked a trip to the Icehotel in northern Sweden, my family and friends were amused -- and a bit concerned, especially when I got sick days before my flight. "You can't go to the Arctic with a cold!" my mother admonished.
On Malmo's waterfront, once the heart of the city's industrial base, an eye-popping 57-story apartment tower rises spectacularly, dominating the skyline.
Sweden's Parliament narrowly approved a law Wednesday that gives
authorities sweeping powers to eavesdrop on all e-mail and telephone
traffic that crosses the Nordic nation's borders
Swedish police arrested two maintenance workers on suspicion of
plotting sabotage after they tried to enter a nuclear power plant
Wednesday with traces of a powerful explosive like that used in the
2005 London transit bombings, officials said
Two players have left camp and at least one other is injured, so the choices for U.S. coach Bob Bradley will be limited somewhat when he names his 18 players who will face Sweden on Saturday at Home Depot Center (Fox Soccer Channel, 8:30 p.m. ET).
While the meat-producing community is often condemned for its contribution to climate change, some observers of late have become as interested in what the animals expel as the animals themselves: Manure.
Kyle Okposo was one of five different players to score as Team USA earned a 5 -1 victory over Kazakhstan today in the opening game for both teams of the preliminary round of the 2008 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship.
CHENGDU, China -- The United States' 2-2 draw with North Korea in its World Cup opener wasn't the end of the world -- especially since the other Group B game between Sweden and Nigeria also ended in a tie. The entire group is sitting with one point, and you can argue that the U.S. has an edge because it already has its toughest game out of the way.
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When Americans think of Sweden, they tend to envision boxy blue Ikea stores or blonds in bikinis. North Carolina-based giant R.J. Reynolds Tobacco is hoping to add another item to that list: snus (...
British sports teacher Cathy Terrell's crippling leg injury nearly ruined her career until a pioneering surgical technique allowed scientists to "grow" a new knee joint. This is her story:
Sweden has begun paying homage to the many nationals who died in the Indian Ocean tsunami, putting on a formal and symbolic ceremony for the first bodies returning to home soil.
The Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs says it plans to scold the Israeli ambassador to Sweden for damaging artwork depicting a Palestinian suicide bomber.
Until recently, when people asked me what kind of a society I wanted to see, I had a stock answer: "Sweden in the summer of 1980." Why Sweden? Because I am a soggy liberal, and Sweden has tradition...
With European monetary union only a couple of weeks away, the time has come to take stock of one of the world's great postwar transformations. The euro, of course, marks not the first but one of th...
Each year at the end of summer, a hundred or so select economists, central bankers, and government officials from around the world convene at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a two-day talkfest on the ec...
Compared with other wealthy democracies, our country does little to help parents cope with new babies or pay for child care. Granted, the Family and Medical Leave Act that President Clinton signed ...
Anders Ahlbom is hardly a revolutionary. Sitting in his tidy, light-filled office at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute medical school, the researcher whose results are frightening a lot of people se...
This item begins by broaching a weird analogy. At least, it received this rating from our friend the movie critic. We had called him to ask which was the Cagney film in which Jimmy is about to swag...
Social Democrats have run the country since 1982 and for 53 of the past 60 years, so they can hardly blame anyone else for Sweden's abundant woes, including recession and 11% inflation. Industry, p...
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