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VITAMIN B: Finnish researchers concluded that B12 (found in meat, milk and fortified cereal) may beat the blues. Depressed patients with the highest levels of vitamin B12 in their blood responded best to treatment...
Could vitamin B12 help clinically depressed patients beat their blues? A Finnish study monitored levels of the vitamin (found in meat, milk, eggs and fortified cereals) and found that the patients who responded best to treatment were those who had higher concentrations of B12 in their blood...
There's still one form of correspondence that hasn't been taken over by email: kids' letters to Santa. At Santa Claus Village, 8 km north of Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland, ol' St. Nick gets nearly a million letters a year from children worldwide-especially from Japan. And now he even writes back (for details, go to www.santagreeting.net and expect to pay about...
...conundrum for friends,” Dean Hunt, Schoenhof’s Foreign Books employee and long-time language maestro, admits with a chuckle. Because, despite the fact that Hunt knows French, German, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Ukranian, Finnish and a smattering of Slavic languages, he hasn’t ventured off this continent in 18 years. “I hate flying,” he says, at home with the store’s obscure volumes and multilingual clientele. Hunt leans back decisively in his swivel chair, his bespectacled eyes crinkling into...
...Former Finnish Ambassador to Israel Pasi Patokallio discussed the importance of contact with other parties within the system and warned students against “the deadliest sin of the diplomat, ‘localitis,’ where you forget to represent your government, and where you ‘understand’ the locals too much...