Word: scandinavia
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...Crimson didn't become the National Hockey League's newest expansion club. Instead, Harvard traveled to Scandinavia and faced four professional teams from Sweden and Finland in a seven-day, four-game exhibition tour...
...professor, who studies the literature and cultural history of Scandinavia, had hoped to analyze a 1000-year-old runestone, inscribed with ancient writing. However, when he arrived at the field where the rock was located, Mitchell discovered that a local farmer had destroyed his key to the past. "A farmer had loaded a couple of sticks of dynamite onto the runestone and turned it into rubble," Mitchell says. "All medieval historians are frustrated trying to reconstruct a world about which we know very little...
Despite that setback, Mitchell still travels to Scandinavia as often as he can to do field research, the aim of which is to analyze folklore theory and the history of that genre in Northern Europe, he says. "My life is split in two halves, but there is a synergism between them," says Mitchell, who just received tenure from Harvard after eight years of teaching here...
...good, unrenovated woody is hard to find. The frame must bear the original manufacturer's number if it is to be considered vintage. Boat brokers and their scouts comb through the backwoods of Michigan, New England, Canada and even Scandinavia in search of suitable craft. The cold freshwater lakes and the long, dry winter-storage seasons in those areas make them prime hunting grounds for well-preserved hulls...
...Jackie Kennedy and little Caroline yachting in the Mediterranean. Leggett admits with a wink, "Neither plan made it past the second glass of ale." Balfour once sent a reporter to find paradise. The intrepid investigator rang up $10,000 on his expense account by visiting Tahiti, Hawaii, Uganda and Scandinavia. Finally, he found a remote island. Unfortunately, the paradise prohibited tourists, and the story was killed. "Once we had so many Brits on the road that three reporters, all sent by different editors, were bunked at the same first-class hotel in Hong Kong," recalls Burt...