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...division of Johnson & Johnson plans to test-market Benecol in January and hopes it will prove as popular here as it has in Finland. The smooth yellow spread has been sold there since 1995, and stores have had trouble keeping it in stock, even at prices six times that of ordinary margarine...
Despite the loss of freshman Jussi Utriainen, one of the squad's top runners who left Harvard to attend business school in Finland, Harvard is still fielding a very strong pack, thanks mostly to a great depth of talent...
Several of the club's members expressed disappointment that Swedish is the only Scandinavian language taught at the College, even though Scandinavia includes Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden...
Torvalds, like many self-made hacker heroes--and, for that matter, Bill Gates--was drawn to computers at an early age. He's been programming since he was 10 (what else are you going to do in Finland if you hate ice hockey?), when Granddad brought home a Commodore VIC-20 and recruited Linus to be his "right-hand man." Linus immediately started using the VIC-20 to write his own computer games...
...however, the only thing he does. Last February Torvalds moved his family from Finland to Silicon Valley. He now pulls down a six-figure salary as a full-time programmer for Transmeta Corp., a top-secret, high-tech start-up backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The combination of Allen and Torvalds has fueled wild speculation about what Transmeta might be up to in its Santa Clara, Calif., skunk works. Is it building a new microprocessor that will compete with Intel's x86 chip set? Is it using, as some seem to believe, technology borrowed from visiting aliens...