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...skiing teams began their seasons this weekend at the Bates Winter Carnival in Rumford, Maine, placing ninth out of 13 teams with 124 team points. Defending NCAA champion Dartmouth won the carnival with 493 team points. Sophomore Audrey Mangan led the way for the women’s Nordic team with her 33rd-place finish in the 10K classic and her 35th-place finish in the 5K freestyle event. In their first race for the team, freshmen Alyssa Devlin and Cara Sprague placed 30th in the 5K freestyle and 39th in the 10K classic, respectively...
...Sweden's second city, but Gothenburg is Scandinavia's Christmas capital. In December, its tree-lined avenues are decked out with 5 million fairy lights, and hundreds of market stands sell handicrafts, roast chestnuts and goblets of glögg, a potent mulled wine that does wonders against the Nordic chill. There's more to this city of 490,000, though, than street markets and stocking fillers. Home to one of the largest student populations in Europe, this young, stylish metropolis is crowded with cutting-edge fashion and design stores. And its thriving culinary scene - the Swedish Chef...
...high-steaks investigation has taken me down some pretty twisted cattle trails. I've spent days on a bus pilgrimage of barbecue joints in Texas and a fortune on wagyu in Japan. I've eaten raw Arctic musk ox with my bare hands at Copenhagen's cutting-edge Nordic restaurant Noma, and I even took my husband to a strip club after I was tipped off that the best meat in Manhattan was to be had at Robert's Steakhouse in the Penthouse Gentlemen's Club. But after several samples of charcoal-grilled chuletón or prime...
...overhead, and become Europe's most aggressive bank in expanding across borders. In April it completed a merger with Denmark's Unidanmark three years after Merita joined forces with Sweden's Nordbanken. The deals have made Merita the largest bank in Scandinavia. "We see ourselves as a pan-Nordic bank with a very powerful distribution network," says Vesa Vainio, who became chairman in April...
...everyone. The deal highlights the competition among the cash-rich gulf states for clout and glory. As Dubai was finalizing its plans to buy OMX and trade it for 20% of NASDAQ, Qatar suddenly triggered a potential new bidding war by swooping up a nearly 10% share of the Nordic exchange. There may be room for more than one financial center in the region. Yet Dubai and Qatar seem bent on a showdown, with Dubai betting on its venture with the Americans and Qatar with the Europeans. "Both of them," one banker tells Time, "think there can only...