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...relationship, argues Stephen Safe, a professor of toxicology at Texas A&M University, remains "debatable and unproved." Even the idea that sperm counts are dropping worldwide is open to challenge. Some researchers have questioned Skakkebaek's methodology; they generally agree with his finding that there is a decline in Denmark but consider any broader interpretation more speculative. Several other researchers have shown that sperm counts in Finland, at least, have remained normal; a study of men in Toulouse, France, shows the same result. So, according to published reports, will three more studies of U.S. men scheduled to appear...
Similarly, Phillip White's Claudius is not regal and controlling, but rather slimy and pretentious. When he commands Hamlet to "be as us in Denmark," White is less like a cool, calculating usurper and more like a glib James Spader. He's irreverent and funny, but the eloquence of his "o, my offence is rank" speech is undercut by the flippancy of the rest of his portrayal...
...Hoeg's ferocious burlesque, burgerlich awfulness has its own flavor in Denmark. One of his best chapters has a dissolute theology student, who has been drinking, whoring and mocking his professors for several years, sneering as his negligee-clad girlfriend reads him a letter from home. "Your father is dead," she reports. "To hell with him," says he. Just then his mother's portrait falls off the wall to the floor. His shallow rebellion vanishes at this omen. He sinks to his knees, repents and returns home to preach hellfire to amazed and grateful peasants. If Dreams is regarded...
Among the speakers were professors and professionals from London University, U.K.; Durban University, South Africa; Monash University, Australia; Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Supreme Court of India...
...worked hard. He regularly put in 16-hour days, sometimes staying up all night to scan new, hard-to-find photos for his collection. At the time of his indictment he was spending $500 a week on fresh material, much of it sent by scouts as far away as Denmark and Brazil. The slogan for his bulletin board came from closer to home, however. He was inspired by a visit to Disneyland, where a sign outside proclaims it THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. His computer system came to be known as "the nastiest place on earth...