Word: bjorn
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...troubles began in November, when Bjorn Gillberg, a former professor at Sweden's Ultuna Agricultural University, read a FORTUNE profile of Fermenta. The story noted that el Sayed had earned a Ph.D. in microbiology at Uppsala University in 1973. In reality, el Sayed had been at Ultuna that year, working in Gillberg's lab. Gillberg investigated the discrepancy and discovered that el Sayed had also falsely claimed to have a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California, Davis...
BORN. To Jannike Bjorling, 19, aspiring Swedish model, and Bjorn Borg, 29, retired Swedish tennis star, businessman and spokesman for Swedish tourism: their first child, a boy; in Stockholm...
Lopped off the head of the men's bracket in the quarterfinals, John McEnroe seconded that. "More and more, I understand Bjorn Borg for walking away (at 25, four years ago)," he murmured, after Naturalized American Kevin Curren of South Africa overwhelmed him in three curt sets. "It's difficult not to be No. 1," McEnroe says. He felt "overpowered," not so much by Curren personally as by circumstances and Curren's modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power...
...plot outline in 1977. But neither Lloyd Webber nor Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line) was interested in composing the score. As Rice, a large, genial Londoner of 40 who looks like a relaxed Anthony Burgess, recalled in New York last week, "Then in 1982 I heard that Benny and Bjorn were keen to write something beyond the confines of ABBA. They wanted the chance to let rip, and I was lucky that Chess gave them that chance: male voices, an 80-piece orchestra, a huge choir...
...persistent rumors of a reunion. "Andrew and I had eight or ten years together that were enormously successful and great fun. But now it's been eight or ten years since we wrote our last show, Evita, and it would take time and care to start over again. Now Bjorn and Benny and I have built a terrific relationship. If I had an idea for a new show, I'd take it straight to them...