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...single loan ever $3.3 billion in additional bogus accounting was uncovered by WorldCom's internal auditors last week, bringing the total to $7.1 billion 44% is how much undergoing regular mammograms can reduce breast cancer deaths, according to a new study 7 is the number of studies reviewed by Danish analysts who claim they have found no evidence to indicate that mammograms are beneficial...
...frills carriers' fondness for remote airports, once a handicap, is becoming an attraction. Ryanair passengers may in the past have been disconcerted to discover that a flight to Copenhagen didn't actually land in the Danish capital, but instead flew into the Swedish city of Malm? with a 45-minute bus connection to Copenhagen. Now more and more flyers are staying in the cosmopolitan port, whose old city is surrounded by canals crisscrossed by bridges, rather than using it merely as a drop-off point. Southern Sweden's chamber of commerce executive vice-president, Ingemar Nilsson, says increasing numbers...
...stressful? John Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications, was arrested in New York City with his two sons and two other former executives for allegedly committing hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud at the bankrupt cable company. The Doll Takes A Fall Happily, most of us forgot about Danish pop group Aqua and its 1997 hit Barbie Girl long ago. But not Barbie's makers at Mattel. They sued, saying the song sullied Barbie's image. A U.S. judge last week ruled that, as a cultural icon, Barbie is fair game. Europe Gets Defensive So much for the moral high...
...mainstream," says Arthouros Zervos, president of the European Wind Energy Association. "Last year there was nearly twice as much wind power installed as nuclear power." Because it has been promoting wind energy since the 1970s, tiny Denmark has become the world leader in production of wind technology. Last year Danish companies controlled more than 50% of the worldwide market for wind-energy technology. "Our overall goal is to make Denmark into the Silicon Valley of wind turbines," says Peter Hjuler Jensen, head of the wind program at the Ris? National Laboratory outside Copenhagen. Denmark is not the only European country...
...industry," says Daniel Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, a Spanish conservative and member of the European Parliament. Publication of Fischler's proposals was delayed after Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar reportedly pressured Commission President Romano Prodi to soften the reforms. Around the same time Steffen Smidt, the Danish chief of the Commission bureaucracy on fisheries and a strong supporter of the plans, was dismissed, prompting charges that he was forced out for opposing any changes. Then E.U. transport and energy Commissioner Loyola de Palacio, a Spanish conservative with close ties to Aznar, entered the fray. In a letter...