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...cramped office in central Stockholm - filled with young people wearing badges that simply say no - Lowisa Anderzon is working the phones. She is making cold calls to likely voters, trying to get Swedes to go to the polls on Sept. 14 and reject the proposal that this Scandinavian nation of 9 million people should join the euro. The yes side has mounted a slick, expensive campaign funded by big businesses that support the European common currency. But they're trailing in the polls because of people like Anderzon, a 27-year-old nursing assistant at a Stockholm hospital...
...euro, estimates that it is 10 times the amount received from the government - an astounding sum to spend on an election in this country. With that bankroll, they have shouted yes slogans in every legal form. Though political TV advertising is outlawed, the country is awash in debate. On Stockholm street corners, workers dutifully dispense yes or no pins from little huts. And would-be voters are assaulted by huge hanging banners and billboards: "Better krona in your pocket than euros in your unemployment check," said one billboard erected by the no campaigners. Persson's main argument is economic: join...
...into slashing public-sector jobs like teachers and nurses. These jobs are held mostly by women, which helps explain female hostility to the euro. "We would give away the power over our economy," says Zaida Catalán, a Green Party activist who was talking down the euro at Stockholm's Central Station last week. "Monetary union will lead to worse conditions in the workplace." It's difficult to fight against the politics of fear, but the yes side has raised the stakes in the debate by hinting Sweden faces a bleak future without the euro. In a newspaper article...
...STOCKHOLM To brighten the northern skies, Swedes are turning to '60s Technicolor trends such as Pucci's signature-print down vest, right, and Marc Jacobs' Courreges-inspired miniskirts...
...third marathon,” Ferrell says. “I ran New York, and Stockholm, Sweden and then I ran Boston. My time was 3 hours and 56 minutes. I was trying to break four hours...