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...Jaakko Salovaara, 26, Finnish
...child of classical musicians and a cellist himself, Jaakko Salovaara listened to Bach from birth, with some Twisted Sister and AC/DC thrown in. But when he heard acid house on a trip to London in '89, he was converted. He negotiated his teens with one hand on a bow and the other on a mixing deck. But the pulse of the club beat was stronger than the conductor's baton, and at 20 he launched a solo career as the dance artist JS16...
...Record traffic fine given to Internet millionaire Jaakko Rytsola, 27, for going 40 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone in Finland, where such fines are based on income...
...vast majority of our students understand the advantages of business activity," says Jaakko Saarinen, a 27-year-old student hotel manager. One reason is that almost all Finnish students come from families of modest means and have to start thinking early about how to earn a living...
...University chose McCurdy to assist famed Jaakko Mikkola, whom he recalls as being "a great gentleman whose passion was track." When Mikkola died in 1952, the year he was to retire, the University made an understandable choice, naming his colleague and good friend Bill McCurdy head track coach...