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...only 2.5 seconds behind but Scott made up almost the entire difference on the next lap. Renner, supplied with a replacement pole by a Canadian coach while in the transition area, held the position on her third-and-final lap, and Scott began the final loop a nose behind Finland's Virpi Kuitunen, neck-and-neck with Sweden's Lina Andersson. The race came down to the final stretch, when Andersson broke a stride clear of Scott to win the gold medal with Anna Dahlberg in 16 minutes 36.9 seconds. Scott, 31, and Renner, 29, finished 0.6 seconds behind...
...political administration more sympathetic to the U.S. During the rule of the Shah of Iran, it was the U.S. that provided much of the weaponry and technical support that Iran used in later years for purposes less friendly toward the U.S. and the world in general. Chris Angelis Tampere, Finland...
...political administration more sympathetic to the U.S. During the rule of the Shah of Iran, it was the U.S. that provided much of the weaponry and technical support that Iran used in later years for purposes less friendly toward the U.S. and the world in general. Chris Angelis Tampere, Finland...
...ELECTED. TARJA HALONEN, 62, as President of Finland; in Helsinki. The Social Democrat's low-key campaign emphasized Finland's ties with neighboring Russia, the European Union and NATO, to which the country has moved closer in recent years. Ceding victory, former Finance Minister Sauli Niinistö, kissed Halonen's hand and said, "The man has lost...
Indeed, in the past five years, our productivity hit 3.5%, surpassing those magic years. Our only rivals at the top of the productivity list are the postage-stamp Scandinavians (Finland, Denmark and Sweden), while the lumbering giants we so fear, China and India, rank 49th and 50th...