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Anyone who's been reading the papers or watching the news in the last few months knows that, economically speaking, there's something rotten in the state of Denmark. Pundits who once breathlessly exhorted the virtues of the New Economy now sound the alarm. "Danger ahead," they say. Some Really Smart People, like Alan Greenspan, have even begun cautiously dusting off that dreaded R-word from the early '90s: recession...
...Cell-phone safety is a very touchy and involved subject," says Jorgen Bach Andersen, a professor at Aalborg University in Denmark who pioneered the development of a type of low-radiation antenna that is gradually finding its way into cell phones. "If no one wanted to buy mobile phones any longer because they were afraid of health damage, that would be disastrous for the industry." Some 500 million mobile phones are in use around the world--including 100 million in the U.S.--and manufacturers have been selling new ones at the rate of 400 million a year...
DIED. VICTOR BORGE, 91, hammy pianist and conductor whose one-man Broadway show, Comedy in Music, ran a record 849 performances; in Greenwich, Conn. Borge originally trained as a concert pianist in his native Denmark, but eventually began incorporating satire and sight gags into his act. A Jew, he fled Europe to escape the Nazis, arriving in the U.S. speaking no English but ultimately perfecting his act to gain worldwide acclaim...
...course, not all E.U. members are in NATO, and not all NATO members are in the E.U. Denmark and Austria have opted out of the new defense initiative. But even the French, who are outside of the NATO command structure, have emphasized that this force would not take any action opposed by NATO. Does NATO have right of first refusal to get involved in specific crises? That's the way it seemed to come out when the new initiative was presented this week. The participating countries are committed to NATO, and are going to use NATO planners to do their...
...dominance of only two parties seems to offer "little freedom of choice and lack of flexibility," according to Marian H. Smith '04 from Denmark, Somalia, and Luxembourg...