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...received a Ph.D from the University of Aarhus, Denmark in 1991 and worked at the Rowland Institute before moving to Harvard...
Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark...
...action will follow a terrorist attack carried out on American soil. And the argument that the mass murder of Sept. 11 was brought on by injustices of American foreign policy is hard to credit when Osama bin Laden is a man whose ideal of social organization is not exactly Denmark...
...uprooting of the Beghal structure is a small victory against terrorism, but the international cooperation that produced it still has a long way to go. The decentralized justice systems of countries like Germany and Italy, for example, make coordinating domestic antiterrorist operations difficult. Nations like the Netherlands and Denmark have been slow to identify the terrorist threat in the absence of attacks on their territory. "If you have even a small population of motivated radicals, there?s a threat," the French official says. "If you?ve got a U.S. embassy, you house a target. If you have innocent people...
...together and raise children - without getting married. That pattern holds true throughout much of Scandinavia, where about half of all children are born out of wedlock, almost double the E.U. average. This more informal structure is helped by a legal framework that is increasingly sympathetic to nontraditional families: in Denmark, for example, under a law passed this year, cohabiting couples automatically have joint custody of newborn children. Throughout Europe, couples like the Skovlind-Nielsens are redefining what the term family means in the year 2001. Forget the stereotype of a bread-winning father, stay-at-home mother and 2.4 children...