Word: denmark
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...Relying on abortion and pregnancy data on more than 11,600 women from the Danish National Patient Registry, Zhang and colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Aarhus University in Denmark, analyzed the impact of an early first-trimester abortion - using drugs versus surgery - on women's long-term reproductive health. After adjusting for variables such as maternal age, number of births prior to abortion and gestational age at the time of abortion, researchers found no increase in risk of ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, premature birth or low birth weight in the medication group, as compared with the women...
...frozen North Pole is currently a no man's land supervised by a U.N. Commission. The five Polar countries - Russia, the U.S., Canada, Norway and Denmark - each control only a 200-mile economic zone along their coasts. And none of these economic zones reach the North Pole. Under the current U.N. Maritime convention, one country's zone can be extended only if it can prove that the continental shelf into which it wishes to expand is a natural extension of its own territory, by showing that it shares a similar geological structure...
...Christiania sits on prime real estate in Copenhagen's upmarket Christenhaven neighbourhood, and Denmark's conservative government wants to reclaim the territory for an ambitious housing project...
...dubbed the New Alliance - was set up in May, electing its leader, Syrian-born Nasser Khader, as the country's first-ever member of parliament from the 8% of the population whose origins are foreign. And, in the seven weeks since the Christiania riots, the New Alliance has become Denmark's third largest party, boasting 20,000 members and polling 15 percent of the popular vote...
...bemoaning U.S. “imperialism” or human rights abuses. This, as it happened, was the same week when embassies were being torched and innocent people murdered elsewhere in the world, amidst the engineered rage that followed the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark. By most indications, it was a remarkable cultural phenomenon, warranting a great blossoming of teach-ins and town-hall meetings—but the campus remained inauspiciously...