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...window-shopping aspect and played up the promise of long-term love. "The dream here is not to marry a millionaire prince," says Johan Siwers, vice president of Northern Europe. "The dream is to live a good life in the countryside and be happy." Match now rules the Scandinavian market, with 1.5 million members...
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology professor Donald H. Pfister will chair the review committee, which will also include English professor Elaine Scarry and professor of Scandinavian and folklore Stephen A. Mitchell...
Where to Shop Want to de-blandify your Ikea home? Hit the Haga - the city's oldest quarter - and search out a truly unique piece of Scandinavian design. The winding streets here house a dozen antique stores, but the best is Bebop Antik, which specializes in 20th century furniture and furnishings. Run by jazz buff Stefan Tellevi, the shop is crammed with classics, including twisting vases by Swedish glass designer Vicke Lindstrand and minimalist chairs by Denmark's Kaare Klint. 4 Kaponjärgatan; www.bebop.se...
...1980s Eliasson and two friends formed a break-dance crew and spent four years playing Danish clubs (in silver spandex costumes whipped up by his mother). Eventually they won a Scandinavian break-dancing championship. "I was always dancing," he says. "Four or five hours a day, with a mirror in front of me. It gave me a great sense of what the body could do in space, how you could gain control of your body." He pauses. "Also, it was very cool...
...Noma, you won't find sun-dried tomatoes or year-round strawberries, nor will you find your Scandinavian grandmother's pork and cabbage warmed over for modern tastebuds. What you will find is a sophisticated Arctic-musk-ox tartare with wild wood sorrel that you eat with atavistic pleasure with your fingers, or maybe phenomenal giant langoustines from the Faroe Islands. Instead of olive oil, there's skyr, a virtually fat-free cultured-milk product from Iceland, and homemade elderflower vinegars and pickled sweet cicely. The dishes are executed with such aesthetic refinement that they take on a quality...