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...tuck. It's very technical. You are always on an edge. Eberharter will be tough to beat in downhill and super-G." Austria also has the top-ranked woman in Michaela Dorfmeister, another speed freak. To find Europe's best mogul skiers you've got to go north to Scandinavia. Norway's Kari Traa has won six of eight World Cup contests this season. "There's not very much that separates all the women," says Shannon Bahrke, a top-ranked American, but Traa has managed...
...Malene's when she was 18 - they say that experience only played a minor role in their decision not to marry. The couple says that roughly half their friends have similarly chosen to live together and raise children - without getting married. That pattern holds true throughout much of Scandinavia, where about half of all children are born out of wedlock, almost double the E.U. average. This more informal structure is helped by a legal framework that is increasingly sympathetic to nontraditional families: in Denmark, for example, under a law passed this year, cohabiting couples automatically have joint custody of newborn...
This recording is Bjork's return to Iceland--or Scandinavia, at least--after a career of mixing cultures: posing as a Chinese woman in Asian dress on the cover of her last album, Homogenic, and collaborating in past projects with American rapper RZA and British musicians Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After...
...magazine gets sent to the printer. Forced to find outside help, I turned to the Comedy Coach. I called Neil Leiberman, whom I found at comedycoach.com and listened to his answering-machine message, which included not only "I'll get back to you quicker than you can say 'Scandinavia'" but also "Leave me a message and I'll buy you a car." I am still not sure why he isn't the Komedy Koach...
...Interpol, national police from half a dozen countries - through the decades and across the map of Europe and Scandinavia - they all chased Einhorn. There were stakeouts; interviews with monied acquaintances, including an international rock star and a billionaire socialite; and even a brief attempt by a vigilante cyberposse from Australia to stalk the computer junkie by Internet. Three times in those 16 years, police were close enough to feel his heat. Each time, Einhorn melted away. Now, in remote Champagne-Mouton, another chance...