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THROUGHOUT VLADIMIR NABOKOV'S Lolita the prose chimes with music. How appropriate, then, that Rodion Schedrin, one of Russia's pre-eminent composers, has seized upon the novel for an opera. Schedrin's Lolita, which received its world premiere at the Royal Opera in Stockholm last month, runs four hours; unfortunately, the novel has more music on a single page...
...STOCKHOLM: Gift Horses Swedes are upset over the death of three Thoroughbred Arabian horses--victims, they say, of bureaucratic intransigence. The animals were an official present to Sweden from the chief of Pakistan's armed forces. Because Swedish law prohibits the direct import of horses from Asia, arrangements had been made to quarantine the animals in Estonia for six months. While the horses were in transit, Estonia changed its mind, and the animals were flown instead to Stockholm, where the Agriculture Ministry ordered them destroyed. ``It is awful,'' said a Stockholm resident. ``Imagine killing such beautiful living creatures...
Need to know the current temperature in Boulder, Colorado or Stockholm? Just point and click. Want to hear what's being said right now in the University of Waterloo's computer-science club? A microphone in the office is linked to the Internet. Like to see how other people spend their days? There are live cameras, accessible through the Web, pointed at busy laboratories all over the world...
...least six other cities are vying for the Games. Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Beijing and a cooperation between Detroit and Windsor, a city in Canada, are all in the running...
...chivalry." Perhaps there was no time for chivalry aboard the Estonia. Many children, mothers and elderly people were asleep in cabins deep within the ship. Patrons in the upper-deck bars were mainly males. "In the circumstances, it is clear who will survive," said Dr. Steffan Torngren, of Stockholm's Soder Hospital, where 31 victims were treated. "It would be those who are most fit, those who are young, those experienced with the sea and the ship...