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...wasn't satisfaction enough for DiBenedetto. Then, early this year, he heard from Hjordis Reichel, a Swedish woman living in California who had seen an "Unsolved Mysteries" show about Einhorn. She had relatives in the upper echelons of the Stockholm police. Call them, DiBenedetto said. It can't hurt...
NIGERIA Delivered from a Voyage to Nowhere After spending 26 days at sea, 156 Liberian passengers aboard a Swedish-registered ship were finally allowed ashore in Lagos. The Alnar Stockholm left Monrovia on June 1 bound for Ghana but was refused permission to dock. The ship's captain then tried Benin and Togo, but they also declined to accept the passengers, who claimed to be refugees from fighting in their homeland. As the ship drew into Lagos they were too exhausted and hungry to celebrate but sang a hymn praising God for their deliverance...
...families in Ballerup, a sleepy little Danish town not far from Copenhagen. Here, E2Home, a joint venture of mobile-phone maker Ericsson and appliances giant Electrolux, has equipped each family with Electrolux's much-publicized Screenfridge, an appliance I saw last fall at another demo home, in Ericsson's Stockholm compound. The engineers there thought it was the coolest thing in the world - a fridge with a full-fledged computer built into its door, with a large screen and an Internet connection. I recall being very skeptical. Who surfs the Net from the kitchen, for crying out loud...
...magazine actually happens to deserve all of those adjectives. Hermenaut recently released its newest effort, Issue #16, entitled “The Stockholm Syndrome Issue.” The Stockholm Syndrome is named for a hostage situation in a Swedish bank in which the hostages became great friends with their hostage-taker. But in the hands of Hermenaut, the Stockholm Syndrome becomes a larger statement of how “it’s possible to internalize the values of someone who is oppressing you,” as Glenn puts it. This issue features essays related to that theme...
With that habituation comes profound recovery. In studies recently conducted by Lars Goran Ost, a psychology professor at Stockholm University and one of the pioneers of one-day phobia treatments, a staggering 80% to 95% of patients get their phobias under control after just one session. And when symptoms disappear, they usually stay gone. Patients, he says, rarely experience a significant phobic relapse, and almost never replace the thing they no longer fear with a fresher phobia object...