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...Erlander barely squeaked through his election to the top post of Sweden's long-dominant Social Democratic Party but gradually won critics over with his astute leadership and folksy style. He led his nation into a period of economic boom and toward achievement of full employment and cradle-to-grave welfare -- goals that his successors found more elusive in a less robust economy...
...fleck of inconvenience, maybe, or a passing unpleasantness. But an authentic disaster, as any of the specialists gathered in Indianapolis last month would tell you, entails grave injuries and, always, at least the possibility of wholesale death. The 600 men and women -- fire fighters and police, civil-defense officials, county sheriffs and physicians, scholars and sellers of all kinds of odd equipment -- came for four days of shoptalk at the first World Congress & Exposition for Disaster & Emergency Management. They came to chat about "pain management" and "grief work," about every kind of horror, about all the most public and spectacular...
...pile of bones, six teeth, some clumps of hair and a pair of rotting trousers. Such are the meager contents of the grave at Embu. Somewhere in this grisly heap, forensic scientists last week sought to find a series of identifying fragments of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. The task, experts say, is a tough one, even with some of the best forensic minds in the world applying their talents. There is no doubt that certain facts about the skeleton will be established. The question is, will a complete identity emerge? Even in the most difficult cases, says Clyde Snow...
Initially, the Brazilians' handling of the remains had been attended by some controversy. The circus atmosphere in which the corpse had been exhumed, with TV cameras broadcasting live from grave-side and remains passed casually out for public inspection, prompted foreign observers to charge Brazilian officials with negligence. Fears mounted when the experts in Sao Paulo initially declined assistance from abroad. Last week, however, the Wiesenthal Center supplied the Brazilians with the dossier it had assembled on Mengele and prevailed on them to allow three U.S. experts to observe the forensic process. "I understand that it is Brazil's national...
...other food emporiums come and go, Tommy's remains. The crowd there can vary (and usually does) from Crimson and Lampoon editors, to Quincy and Lowell House partiers, to video game players, to smokers who just love to get yelled at for putting their feet on the furniture (a grave no-no at Tommy's). No smoking while playing Ms. Pac-Man, but good cheesesteaks and thick frappes (that's a milkshake in Bostonese). Tommy's is open 6 a.m.-2 a.m. on weekdays and 6 a.m.-3 a.m. on Fridays and Saturday nights...