Word: finlandization
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...premier defenseman in the country, as he missed the team's Christmas trip to Minnesota in order to play for the U.S. team at the World Junior Championships. Making the most of his time, McCarthy led the U.S. defensemen in plus-minus and scored in overtime to beat Finland in the fifth-place game...
...news echoed dully across Usenet last week, like the sound of a body being dropped to the floor. It traveled first from Finland across the Net and then bounced instantly to wired people everywhere in the world. If you like, you can experience that doomed moment yourself--it's still frozen there on the newsgroups that convene to comfort people in troubled times. On alt.sex.abuse.recovery, for instance, you'll find a discussion that begins with the subject line "The End of Penet.fi...
...Church of Scientology claims are copyrighted secrets. He has 30 days in which to comply or appeal, and his lawyers are optimistic. But for now, and perhaps forever, anon.penet.fi is unplugged because, as Helsingius puts it, "there's no real protection for free speech on the Internet in Finland...
While there is no truth to the old joke that the people of Finland think sausage is a vegetable, they do have a legendary fondness for fat--and such high cholesterol counts that they are favorite research subjects for heart-disease studies. All that may change if a tiny food-and-grain company has its way. The Raisio Group of Finland has developed a margarine blend that actually lowers a person's cholesterol 10% to 15%. Some experts believe regular consumption could cut the risk of heart attack by a third...
...ingredient is a naturally occurring chemical found in pine trees--something else Finland has a lot of. Called sitostanol, the compound makes it harder for the body to absorb cholesterol. One of Raisio's scientists figured out how to extract sitostanol and mix it with conventional margarine. Then doctors from Helsinki tested the blend for a year on 153 subjects and reported in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine that the cholesterol counts of people who used sitostanol-laced margarine daily dropped from 235 mg/dL to 210 mg/dL...