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...crowd chanted "Matti! Matti!" and his countrymen waved blue-and-white Finnish flags, the superbrat of ski jumping shot down the runway at 54 m.p.h. Body tucked, hands behind his back, he soared off as though someone had slipped a piece of hot charcoal into his ski boot...
...European junior championship at 17, and Calgary may be his last hurrah. He will be missed, both for his sleepy off-course demeanor (hence his nickname "the Sack") and his sportsmanship; at the 1980 Olympics he offered to share the gold medal in the 15-km with a Finnish skier who finished a whisker-thin two- thousandths of a second behind him. Wassberg took much of 1986 off, then stormed back last year, and could win the 30-km race...
CARL NIELSEN: SYMPHONY NO. 1; LITTLE SUITE, OP. 1 (CBS/Masterworks). The neglected First Symphony, sizzling in the hands of the young Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen...
...drug, called gemfibrozil, was originally approved for treatment of a pancreatic disorder. In a five-year study of more than 4,000 Finnish men, those treated with the drug suffered only two-thirds as many heart attacks and cardiac-related deaths. After three years of treatment, that fraction dropped to less than half. "This is the largest decrease in coronary disease seen in any trial," said Heikki Frick, a University of Helsinki scientist who took over the study in 1986 after its originator, Cardiologist Esko Nikkila, died in an auto accident...
...Finnish study shows that raising HDL levels also leads to a decreased risk of heart disease. Each of the participants, while otherwise healthy, was chosen for his high overall cholesterol level. Starting in 1981, doctors gave half the test group gemfibrozil, which, among other effects, increases HDL while moderately lowering LDL. The other half received a placebo. More than 82,000 visits to the clinic and 500,000 blood tests later, the LDL levels of the men given gemfibrozil had dropped 8% and their HDL levels had risen more than...