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...When we arrived in the middle of the night," said Jan Thure Tornroos, captain of the Finnish ferry Mariella, which was the first vessel on the scene, "we could see people floating about in the water and hear them screaming for help." The Mariella managed to rescue 17. "There were hundreds of bodies bobbing up and down," said Hemming Eriksson, a passenger on a second ferry that responded to the postmidnight mayday message. "Many were dressed only in underwear and life jackets. Some of them moved, so you could see they were living, but we could not get them...
...leading antioxidants, beta carotene and vitamin E, gave no protection against lung cancer in a controlled test of 29,000 Finnish smokers, and may have done some harm...
...Everything is much the same here, although there are more criminals," the friends writes. "Life is like usual although our home was robbed and many icons taken. Then we bought cool car. A Finnish car, which we paid for with much money. It was stolen. It was found many miles from Moscow but it is all broken--no front--and we have no money to repair it. But if you come we will protect you from the bad people. Plus mother is in hospital with cancer so there is a free room...
Mark Roth '96 feels that the weather call to his heritage. "It makes me feel Nordic," says the half-Finnish Roth...
Proofreader's Worst Nightmare: Finnish cross-country skier Tuulikki Pyykkoenen...