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...against Iraq might be beneficial for President Bush. It could allow him to once again play the part of the great uniter of the American people against the evil enemy--as was the case after Sept. 11--and thus improve his chances for re-election in 2004. ASBJORN ANDERSEN Vanloese, Denmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 2003 | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...England Journal of Medicine, showed that placebos offer no significant advantage over "no treatment" for dozens of conditions ranging from colds and seasickness to hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. (The exception is pain relief, which sugar pills seem to bring to about 15% of patients.) Dr. Asbjorn Hrobjartsson of the University of Copenhagen, who led the study, speculates that much of the improvement attributed to the placebo effect may have been the result of a disease's natural fluctuation or of patients' unconscious desire to please their doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefs: Briefs | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...dead include: Ralph B. Laird, 22, Camas, Wash.; James Leonard Bryan, Portland, Ore.; Noel L. Brown, 18, Seattle; Roger W. Young, 19, Seattle; Leonard B. Wickman, Bellevue, Wash.; David B. Haerle, Portland, Ore.; Asbjorn Reese, Seattle; Harry C. Franzheim 3rd, North Seattle; Russell H. Palmer, 27, Vancouver, Wash.; Wallace Hartley, Mercer Island, Wash.; Don Lee Garrett, Portland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crash Blame Not Set; Harvard Flight Is Delayed | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Master Mariner Henry Asbjorn Larsen knew then that he had turned Point Barrow into the Bering Sea. He knew that he had done what no other man had done: navigated the legendary Northwest Passage from west to east and back again. Last week Staff Sergeant Larsen piloted the weather-beaten 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police ship, St. Roch, into Vancouver Harbor. She was just 86 days out of Halifax, had sailed on a 7,500-mile trip around the top of North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE ARCTIC: Northwest Passage, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Ruud won his first championship when he was seven years old. Since ski jumping is a matter of confidence and body control, Birger Ruud, like all Kongsberg children, supplemented winter jumping with summertime diving to keep in trim and help develop good technique. The Ruuds have a younger brother, Asbjorn, 18. who has already outjumped Birger. This is Birger's second visit to the U. S. and this trip is his honeymoon. When asked if he can speak English, his answer is "a little." Those two words are practically the limit of his English vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Norwegian Jumpers | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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