Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast to Japan's youngsters, Scandinavia's teens almost take sex for granted. "There is not much talk about sex between teenagers," notes Stefan Laack of the Swedish Association for Sex Information, "yet it is widely accepted that they sleep with their boyfriends or girlfriends in their homes...
...phased out by international agreement -- is falling even faster than expected. That's the good news. The bad news is that cfcs already released are still drifting up through the atmosphere. New satellite data, reported in the current Nature, show that ozone levels over some northern parts of Canada, Scandinavia and Russia were 10% lower this winter than they were just one year...
...members behind bars. In Spain, Felipe Gonzalez's party could well face defeat in elections later this year. Britain's Labour Party has been unable to win a national election in 14 years, while Germany's Social Democratic Party has been frozen out of government since 1982. In Scandinavia, the long-ruling Social Democrats were ousted from power in the mid-1980s, but they have recently regained power in Denmark and Sweden, where their main task will be to trim back their own greatest achievement: the welfare state...
...program in September 1939. But serious work halted in June 1942 when Heisenberg told Albert Speer, Hitler's war-production czar, that an atom bomb could not be produced fast enough to affect the outcome of the war. From then on, Heisenberg apparently wanted his old scientific friends in Scandinavia, Switzerland and the U.S. to know that Germany was working on power reactors, not bombs...
...look of new communities. Is this the suburb of the future? On Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...