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...planner also features important events in women’s history. FM learned that Finland was the first country to give women the vote, that Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb Everest, and that the first mammography machine was developed...
House: Currier Concentration: ESP (P) Hometown: North Attleboro, MA / Turku, Finland Ideal Date: Crazy cuisine I’ve never tried before followed by some public destination-enhanced recreational activities. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Quirky fashion sense, including birthday-oriented attire. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Pregame with my teammates then out on the streets...literally. First thing you notice about a girl: Ability to dance, followed quickly by ability to not bore me to death. Your best pick-up line: No words, a little eye contact foreplay followed by smile...
...Estonia itself: freed from the confines of a half-century of totalitarian rule, it's having a blast experimenting with unorthodox ideas as it races to make up for lost time. Estonia has been a frontier state throughout its history, bumping up against Russia to the east and facing Finland across a narrow gulf. Since the three Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tiny nation (pop. 1.35 million) has managed to put itself on the edge of far more than just geography. It was the first former Soviet republic to introduce...
...deterred investors. Foreign money is pouring in and now totals more than $12 billion. Companies partly or wholly owned by foreigners account for one-third of Estonia's total economy and more than 50% of exports. About three-quarters of the funds have come from just two countries, Finland and Sweden. Can the money continue flowing? Most seem to think it can, with at least one key caveat: Estonia needs to resolve its shortage of labor. "We are running out of people," says Craig Rawlings, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tallinn. He recounts a tale...
...When the show can't recreate the film, it plunders the Python repertoire for correlatives. Instead of the mock-Swedish subtitles from the film's opening, the show begins with a Finnish fish-slapping dance - this from a song Palin wrote called "Finland" and a bit in episode 28, when John and Michael ritually smite each other with fish to the music of Edward German. Later, a sound-off marching song flicks a reference to Palin's "Lumberjack Song" with the shouted cadence: "Become a knight and you'll go far / In suspenders...