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Here at Harvard, people gather for delicious treats like crispbread and gingersnaps while partaking in hearty conversation in Swedish, Norwegian and other Scandinavian tongues. All the while, guests ears are greeted by Scandinavian sounds, made internationally famous by the pop geniuses behind ABBA...
...numbers of people and contaminate an unknown stretch of real estate. Because the bomb would require no special skill to build, it's perhaps the most feared of the terrorists' nuclear choices. "They don't kill as many people," says Morton Bremer Maerli, a nuclear-terror expert at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, "but as a weapon of terror, they may be just as effective...
...production team transformed the kitchen for every episode. The cabinets were taken out to make room for three television cameras. Her big Norwegian wooden table was removed and in its place was put an island. Technical equipment was located in a side room, and the cellar became a prop room—where Child once ran seven bread machines simultaneously during an episode on French bread...
...Haruki Murakami (b. 1949) tries to effect a kind of Japanese magic realism, but is a much tamer and less venturesome writer. But novels such as Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood have been runaway best sellers, racking up sales in the millions, and his short stories have been published in prestigious American magazines such as The New Yorker. However, Sputnik Sweetheart (Kodansha International; 210 pages), the latest shot out of the Murakami cannon, sadly promises more than it can deliver and proves...
...Lingjaerde likes to have his feet in two places. A Swiss national with Norwegian roots, he started making transatlantic deals about 15 years ago as a general manager of GeneVest, a Swiss venture capital firm...